Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time

Mongabay
May 7, 2025, 12:16 pm116 pts
KATHMANDU — Recently, one morning in Kathmandu, senior lawyer Padam Bahadur Shrestha reclined in his cluttered second-floor office in a neighborhood near Nepal government’s administrative headquarters Singha Durbar. On one side lay stacks of files pertaining to civil cases. On the other side, an equal…

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