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 […]
KATHMANDU Until Tuesday afternoon for residents of Urlabari town in the eastern plains of Nepal, snow leopards (Panthera uncia) were animals they knew little about. The leopards they knew well were their cousins, the common leopards (Panthera pardus) that visit the town regularly and sometimes attack their livestock. But snow leopards are nof the […]
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 […]