CHITWAN The chirping of birds is interrupted by the rustling of leaves and the sound of breaking twigs. It’s breakfast time at the office of the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) in Sauraha on the fringes of Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. As trust officials munch their bread with sips of tea, three juvenile […]
KATHMANDU It starts off like the premise for a joke: “Why did the tigers cross the road?” But for researchers and conservationists in Nepal, the spread of roads throughout the big cats’ habitat is no laughing matter. A new study underscores just how serious the problem is, showing that road traffic impedes tiger movements […]