Nepal is both the source and transit site for wildlife poaching, and has long flourished as a route for the illegal trade.

June 7, 2007: The success of the Maoists in getting the government to enact reforms, has encouraged the tribes and ethnic minorities to do the same. Over the last few months, several new, armed, and ...

For decades, the Chepang lived in poverty in the forests of Chitwan District (central Nepal). Since 2011, a Catholic school educates their children, offering adults some job opportunities. Tribal ...

The DFO said that an eco-tourism centre is already operational in the Katarniaghat Forest Division but there was no such place in Bahraich and the Tharu tribe dominated Balaigaon village has been ...

The world will be watching from this week as the United Nations human rights body evaluates Nepal’s unelected palace government but many of this nation’s indigenous people will have one eye focused on ...

Twenty year old Padraig Kavanagh from Garden City, Gorey, who recently spent a year working with the Amerindian Makushi Tribe in the South American rainforest has just flown off to live with ...

As many as 80 families of the Tharu tribal community along the Indo-Nepal border here face an uncertain future as the forest department is about to take over their agricultural land in proximity to ...

A village in Indo-Nepal border dominated by the Tharu tribe will be developed as a tourist destination under the Uttar Pradesh government's "One District, One Eco Tourism Spot" scheme, a forest ...