LALITPUR, Nepal As the gates to the vet clinic at the Central Zoo in Lalitpur opened, more than two dozen photojournalists thronged the facility and surrounded a metal cage aiming their DSLR cameras at a snow leopard (Panthera uncia) inside. “Please don’t come close to the animal,” the zoo’s vet, Radha Krishna Gharti, told […]
Gobinda Prasad Pokharel ANN/KATHMANDU POST – A botanist from Nepal has claimed to have discovered a new species of the plant Genus Impatiens popularly known as touch-me-not. Dr Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti, who specialises in plant research, discovered the new species while collecting plant samples for his botanical survey in Myagdi district in 2011. “While collecting […]