For years conservationists hailed Nepal as a success after it tripled its wild tiger population in a decade. Last year, the prime minister of the South Asian nation called tiger conservation "the ...

The Kulung people of eastern Nepal have used the honey for centuries ... bronze statues of gods and goddesses. For Mauli, honey hunting is the only way to earn the cash he needs to buy the few ...

For centuries, the Gurungs have been the only people to harvest "mad honey" from their cliff in Nepal. The honey has hallucinogenic properties, and harvesting it is a big part of the Gurungs' culture.

According to animal activists who travelled to a remote corner of Nepal for the festival, it was followed by the deaths of thousands of buffalo. Some 200,000 animals were killed during the last ...

Wildlife crime continues to plague Nepal, even as the law enforcement strives at the forefront. The country functions both as ...

It is, perhaps, the largest ritual animal sacrifice in the world. And some animal welfare activists in Nepal are working to stop it. As preparations for the 2009 Gadhimai Festival gathered steam, ...

Animals are also sacrificed to celebrate the birth of sons. In 2016 Nepal’s supreme court ordered a gradual phasing out of the practice of animal sacrifice that once saw as many as half a ...

KATHMANDU, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 83 Nepalis were killed and 599 others injured in attacks by wild animals in the first five months of the current 2024-25 fiscal year, the Nepal Police said ...