No peace dividend for Nepal's wildlife
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Nepal's political transition marks sharp increases in poaching and trafficking of endangered species.
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NEW DELHI -- Environmentalists accused India and China in a stinging indictment yesterday of doing almost nothing to stem the rapid decline of tigers in the wild, saying the big cats will probably vanish completely within a few years without government intervention.
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Melting glaciers caused by climate change are posing an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.
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By Mustaffa Babjee  THE tranquility of Janda Baik is shared with a variety of exotic plants, blooming flowers and chirping birds. But this village could lose its rustic charm if there is no concerted effort at conservation, writes MUSTAFFA BABJEE.
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The picture of Nepal's unpopular King Gyanendra will be replaced by that of Mount Everest on the Himalayan country's 10-rupee notes, the finance minister said on Friday.
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Nepal's Maoists seek to limit damage after their leader says  ex-rebels have thousands of unregistered weapons.
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Nepal's multi-party government and Maoist rebels said they were set to sign a landmark peace accord on Tuesday that would declare a formal end to a decade-old civil war which has killed thousands.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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Nepal must end police action against ethnic Madhesi protesters and create an atmosphere for talks to end protests in which at least 13 people were killed in two weeks, a community leader said on Friday.
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Nepal&#39;s main opposition party urged the government on Monday to call a unilateral ceasefire with Maoist rebels and seek peace talks to end a road blockade that has cut the capital off from the rest of the country.
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Nepal's Maoist rebels rejected peace talks with the new government and began an indefinite blockade across the landlocked Himalayan kingdom on Saturday to oppose King Gyanendra's assumption of power.
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Maoist rebels fighting an eight-year insurgency in Nepal have urged foreign donors to stop giving support of any kind to the aid-dependent Himalayan kingdom.
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THE future of the world&#39;s large wild mammals is threatened by pressures similar to those that caused the extinction of two-thirds of such species at the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
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The UN and human rights groups express concern over the number of people who disappear in Nepal.
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THE number of wild animals across the world has plummeted by 40 per cent in the past 30 years because of changes in the way humans are living.
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Wild elephants and farmers are killing each other at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka, so hundreds of wildlife officers and villagers fanned out into forests on Monday to find ways to broker peace.