Stay updated with breaking news from Hariyo Ban. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
In one of the most climate-vulnerable countries on Earth, an unprecedented development project is building a model for adapting to climate change on a massive scale—working one village at a time.
Research from the CARE-WWF Alliance shows that empowering women can reduce environmental damage, especially when women are engaged in natural resource management and conservation leadership positions.
Villagers and park staff try to scare a rhinoceros away from crops in Bachhauli village. Photo: Peter Gill On a sunny afternoon in January 2021, a male rhinoceros lumbered through intensively farmed land in Bachhauli, a village outside Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s Terai plains. Eschewing a patch of potatoes, he turned his attention to a field of buckwheat, munching on the bright pink blossoms before plopping himself into an irrigation canal to wallow in the cool, slow-flowing water. Worriedly watching the animal from a safe distance, Ramesh Pathak, a tall farmer with green eyes, used hi...
Our feature “ Circulatory Systems” took readers to Nepal, where the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Hariyo Ban Program—implemented by a consortium of four NGOs led by WWF—was addressing the impacts of climate change, habitat degradation, and poverty on people and nature. There, communities were experiencing the effects of climate change firsthand, from the drying up of water sources to an increase in forest fires to record rain and hailstorms. Five years into the 10-year USAID project, Hariyo Ban had supported thousands of people and helped sequester or avoid emiss...