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Bird Flu: Nine Months Later, H5N1 Continues to Plague Nepal
by Kashish Das Shrestha All Photos: Kashish Das Shrestha. Late last December, “when a rapid response team of experts, armed with chemicals and equipment, arrived at Surendra Man Basnet’s poultry farm...
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Exclusive: Anil Chitrakar’s Book “Take The Lead – Nepal’s Future Has Begun”
by Kashish Das Shrestha The front and back cover of Anil Chitrakar’s book Take The Lead: Nepal’s Future Has Begun It is fitting that Anil Chitrakar has authored a book titled Take The Lead: Nepal’s...
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Mountain Tourism and the Threat of Extreme Weather
by Kashish Das Shrestha Originally published (March 2012) in ECS magazine. The Himalayas, 2012. All Photos: Kashish Das Shrestha The majesty of the Himalayas: to breathe its crisp air and stare at its...
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Sagarmatha National Park’s “burning-melting” Problems
by Kashish Das Shrestha Originally published (9 Dec. 2011) by Republica national daily. Brewing a fresh cup at the recently opened Illy cafe in Namche Bazaar in Khumbu. It is lunch hour and the Illy...
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Gateway to Everest, Photographed Generations Apart
by Kashish Das Shrestha Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa on the day Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was established in Darjeeling on 4 Nov. 1954. Photo: Dwarika Das Shrestha My...
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Events Celebrating World Environment Day 2013 in Kathmandu This Week #WED2013
June 5 is World Environment Day. Here in Kathmandu, a week of events have been planned to mark the occasion. Below is a list of the events with details, as published by the organizers. A tree, with...
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Towards a Sustainable Nepal #WED2013
By Gagan Thapa and Kashish Das Shrestha Former MP Thapa was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Means. This piece was written for, and has been published in The Kathmandu...
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Green Wire: 24-Hours of Floods, Landslides, and Lives Lost and Missing in...
by Kashish Das Shrestha UPDATED: June 18, 2013. 10:30PM #Karnali #Flood inundates 1500 houses in Bardiya #Nepal #FloodInNepal http://t.co/aFE7M3O1IE — Sujan R. Bajracharya (@sujanrb) June 18, 2013...
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Flood And Landslide Alert: Heavy Rain Forecasted Tomorrow for Battered Nepal...
by Kashish Das Shrestha The Nagpokhari-Gairidhara junction on May 23, when Kathmandu city received record-rainfall in three hours and experienced severe flooding. Photo: Kashish Das Shrestha The South...
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ECS Photo Feature: Kathmandu, Kathmandu
by Kashish Das Shrestha The June issue of ECS magazine has published a selection of photos from my ongoing ‘Kathmandu, Kathmandu‘ series. It carries photos taken between Summer 2012 and Spring 2013....
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Agriculture In The New Budget 2013/2014: Notes from the Finance Minister’s...
by Kashish Das Shrestha Humla, Nepal. 2010. Photo: Kashish Das Shrestha As the Finance Ministry Shanker P. Koirala announced the details of Nepal’s new budget 2013/14 (2070/71 B.S.), I tried to take...
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Monocrotophos and Other Pesticides in India and Nepal
by Kashish Das Shrestha A young female farmer handling pesticides in Bardiya district in western Nepal. 2013. Photo: Kashish Das Shrestha “The pesticide that killed 23 schoolchildren last week is a...
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Green Wire: Kathmandu’s Human-Leopard Conflict, and Nepal’s National...
by Kashish Das Shrestha Kathmandu’s Human-Leopard Conflict A female leopard gets ready for her meal at the Zoo. Early in the morning on May 22, 2012, a large male leopard weighing 42 kilos (92.5lbs)...
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Concerns About Mahout and Elephant Welfare in Chitwan National Park
Soon after the morning safari hours are over, the elephants are taken to a local river where tourists play with them further, most popularly being showered by the elephants. 2010. Photo: Kashish Das...
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