The Chinese pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal, with populations crashing over 90% in 21 years. In Nepal, habitat loss and rising poaching threaten it severely. Eastern and central districts like Bhaktapur and Kavrepalanchok are trafficking hotspots. Protecting this shy, scaly creature …

Shy, scaly, and silent, the Chinese pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal. Over one million lost in a decade. Nepal is a last stronghold. With 90% population crash, Himalayan Nature empowers local youths as citizen scientists to monitor and protect this gentle creature before it vanishes.

Nepal is an important habitat of the Chinese Pangolin with population strongholds in the central regions, significant yet declining populations of this species are scattered throughout the country, largely outside of protected areas, making the species more vulnerable to anthropogenic activities. D…

Dhole or Asiatic wild dog Cuon alpinus is one of the most remarkable, elusive, pack-hunting (usually five to 10, but up to 25 adults), endangered social carnivores in the Asian terrestrial eco-regions. Habitat fragmentation and degradation, prey base’s depletion, persecution (retaliation killing), …

Blind but graceful, the South Asian River dolphin lives in the muddy Ganges and Brahmaputra. It uses echoes to hunt. Fewer than 2,000 remain. Dams, pollution, and fishing nets threaten it. Saving these dolphins means cleaning our rivers and keeping them flowing

Chinese pangolins (Manis pentadactyla) are critically endangered, having declined by over 90% in the past two decades due to poaching, illegal trade, and habitat loss; they are the most trafficked mammals globally, with trafficking hotspots in eastern and central Nepal despite no known domestic mar…