Nepal’s community forestry program has been hailed as a success for helping increase the country’s forest cover from 26% to 45% in 25 years. As part of the program, pioneered in the 1970s ...

Sustainable farming: Agro-forestry in NepalIt’s essential to focus on Agro-forestry System instead of focusing on intensive modern agriculture and forestry separately in order to achieve ...

Yet, five years later, the FDF has not spent a single rupee, even as the forest-managing communities it aims to assist struggle with financial challenges in preserving the country’s forests.

Nepal's community forestry success story has been praised internationally. Other developing countries have tried to emulate it, and in November even The New York Times noticed this success, running a ...

Our forests will continue to burn and Nepalis will continue to suffer as long as we do have an institutional body to address the disaster.” Increasing wildfires also threaten Nepal’s diverse ...

That changed in 2017 when Nepal’s government amended the Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act of 1973 to allow community forest groups to display wildlife as an ecotourism venture.

The agro-forestry system provides solutions to increased demand for forest resources, thereby reducing pressure on degraded forests of Nepal (for example, in the Terai and Inner Terai) where ...

WASHINGTON D.C. - Dr. Krishna Chandra Paudel, Secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, presented Nepal’s vision for the future of forestry in Nepal and its importance to the country ...

An effort decades in the making is showing results in Nepal, a rare success story in a world of cascading climate disasters and despair.