Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

In the whole country, The World Environment Day was marked yesterday by organizing various programs and functions. “Many Species - One Planet, One Future”, was the main slogan of the World Environment Day 2010. On Saturday morning, a rally was organized in Lalitpur district on the occasion of World Environment Day by Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and World Wildlife Fund ... Full story

A wild fire started around Annapurna Conservation area from last Monday is still out of control. According to report fire started from the bushes of Ghandruk VDC a popular tourist destination at an altitude of around 2000m, now spread to altitude of 5000m from the sea level. Even though fire is far away from resident area it has affected wild animals, birds and entire ... Full story

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has honored the nineteen times Everest summitter Apa Sherpa along with Dawa Steven Sherpa with the WWF´s most esteemed "Leaders for a Living Planet" award amidst a function held at Gland, the WWF Secretariat in Switzerland on December 1st. International Director General of WWF, Jim Leape felicitated the “Climate-for-Life Ambassadors” with the highest honor given to an individual by WWF. "Apa and ... Full story

On 24 October, people in 181 countries came together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history. At over 5200 events around the world, people gathered to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis. Nepal  also  calibrate about 26  events  around Nepal from world heritage  site Basanatapur  ... Full story

To abet in effective control mechanism against rising poaching of wildlife animals and other illegal activities at several reserves and national parks, Nepal Army has projected a high-level Wildlife Crime Control Bureau with prime minister as the chairman and forest minister, chiefs of security agencies and secretaries at home, defense and forest ministries as members. The Nepal army, which has been assigned with Nepal’s National park ... Full story