by Prakash Baral in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023 Poaching of birds as well as animals and smuggling of wood and precious medicinal herbs have been going on unchecked in Dhorpatan, the only hunting reserve in Nepal, due to poor security presence. Spread over a total area of 1,325 square kilometres, the hunting reserve is in the Dhaulagiri mountain range and touches Baglung, Myagdi, and East Rukum districts. Sixty percent of the reserve lies…
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Edit in Business Recorder, Jan 23, 2023Shockingly but unsurprisingly, all accused in the high profile torture and murder case of a social activist, Nazim Jokhio, have walked free. It may be recalled that in October 2021 the 26-year-old Jokhio with four children had incurred the wrath of his village’s feudal chieftains for making a video clip of their foreign guests hunting, in violation of a ban, the houbara bustard, an endangered species. He was called…