Abhaya Raj Joshi

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A common wood pigeon.

Researchers in Nepal still puzzled over the super flock of pigeons last winter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Nov 2023

In Nepal, vulture colonies seen to hold stable amid old and new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Oct 2023
A male gharial with its distinctive ‘ghara.’

The endangered gharial’s conservation crisis highlighted after death of a male in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Aug 2023
A tiger peeking over grass.

Tigers struggle to move within Nepal even as they cross borders: study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2023

Nepal comes next in line to Sri Lanka to debate exporting ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 May 2023
water buffaloes

The love for momos in Nepal is threatening endangered wild water buffaloes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Apr 2023
The Pallas’s cat.

Manul, the ‘grumpiest cat,’ confirmed on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023
A snow leopard.

Climate change and catfight in the Himalayas: tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land

Abhaya Raj Joshi 13 Mar 2023
A Royal Bengal tiger

[Interview] “South Asia needs its own regional plan to sustain Bengal tiger population”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Oct 2022
A Sikkim grass lizard

The elusive and endangered Sikkim grass lizard makes a rare appearance in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Sep 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022
Farmers plant paddy in Nepal.

Nepal’s rice farmers brace for loss following lack of timely rains and fertilisers

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2022
A gharial on the banks of the Rapti River

New gharial hatchlings in Nepal a hopeful sign for the critically endangered reptile

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022
A spiny babbler

Nepal and India’s infrastructure rules are “wildlife-friendly,” but not for birds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jun 2022
Tamil Nadu maintains that the neutrino observatory project and allied activities could impact the movement of tigers. Photo by Timothy A. Gonsalves/Wikimedia Commons.

Tiger movements between India and Nepal become increasingly restricted, even as numbers rise

Abhaya Raj Joshi, Sahana Ghosh 17 May 2022

[Interview] Whitley Award winner from Nepal emphasises on crossborder collaboration to protect the red panda

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 May 2022
Glossy ibis flock in a flooded field. In addition to recording observed bird species, Katwal and colleagues also assessed how different agriculture practices influence the abundance of birds by season and the crop mix in the fields. Photo by K. S. Gopi Sundar.

Nepal, India need robust conservation policies for farmland birds outside protected areas

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 May 2022
great-hornbill-Buceros-bicornis

Nepal’s first bird sanctuary could be a new attraction for Indian tourists

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Apr 2022

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