Grassroots forest protection succeeds where planting drives fail in Nepal

Mongabay
Dec 23, 2025, 1:17 am206 pts
NAWALPUR, Nepal — At 75, Hasta Bahadur Sathighare Magar says he still remembers the time when the slopes above his village in the rural municipality of Rupsekot, in central Nepal, looked dead. Dust blew freely as cattle marauded the barren land. That view has since changed. The barren slopes have given way to…

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