2021

Experience Sharing on “Wildlife Conservation during pandemic” during 58th Scientist Nepal E-meet

Blog, COVID-19 /

We are grateful to Scientist Nepal for the opportunities to share practical experiences of wildlife conservation activities during the Covid-19 pandemic and impacts of wildlife in Province No.-2. It was an amazing platform to showcase our work to over 150 scientists and researchers from Nepal. Scientist Nepal is an e-platform of self-motivated professionals working in different fields of science and technology. The platform came into effect spontaneously after the declaration of a pandemic by WHO and a lockdown announcement by the Government of Nepal. It aims to mobilize Nepal’s scientific community to get involved and/or contribute to the global effort of dealing with Covid-19 through knowledge generation and sharing. An E-meeting platform for this (58th) session was provided by the Everestwalk group. The platform is made of Nepal and was the first test to handle the online meeting where over 150 participants could attend the program without technical issues. We congratulate Mr. Nashir Mulla, Coordinator Scientist Nepal for Province No.-2 for successfully organizing the programme. We are also grateful to the participants who shown much love and appreciated our wildlife conservation activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Consultation Meeting with Policymakers of Province No.-2, Nepal

Blog, Wildlife /

It’s really a proud moment to get the opportunity to welcome major policymakers of Province No.-2 to Mithila Wildlife Trust office in Janakpurdham. An in-depth discussion was done on the overview, opportunities, and threats to the wildlife of Province No.-2 with Dr. Ram Chandra Kandel, Honorable Secretary, Most senior Forestry expert and Environment Division Chief, Mr. Nand Lal Ray Yadav, and Coordinator to wildlife conservation initiatives in Province and AFO Sujit Kumar Jha and Planning Division Chief from Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, and Mr. Jagarnath Jaysawal, Directory, Provincial Forestry Directorate, Province No.-2. The entire Mithila Wildlife Trust family is grateful to all the respective personalities and leaders to forest and wildlife conservation activities in Nepal for the opportunity to welcome you all to our office. And, for always being there to motivate the conservation enthusiasts. The whole discussion was concentrated on the hotspots and strategic locations within Province No.-2. Mr. Dev Narayan Mandal, Chairman, Mithila Wildlife Trust presented the present scenario and future perspective of wildlife conservation in the province. Honorable secretary committed to lobbying at ministry level on the discussed strategies where Forestry Director shared the opportunities of basketing for implementation of the activities. Mr. Aaditya Pal, Wildlife Research Officer, and Mr. Ganesh Sah, Research Assistant and Research Assistant shared their experience on the opportunities related to birds and reptiles. Mr. Chandan Thakur, Aadarsh Mishra, and other team members managed the technical management during the meeting. Some of the major points included in the discussion were present threat to the wildlife in the province, the status of the wildlife corridor between Parsa National Park (PNP) to Koshi Tapu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) in the province, human-wildlife conflict, and poaching of wildlife in the province, opportunity and challenges to corridor restoration, a site visit to biological hotspot within the province, landscape-level corridor restoration in the province, encouragement and motivation to the active Community Forest User Groups, possibilities of underpass construction at some vulnerable wildlife crossings and alternatives to the corridor to protect existing forest and wildlife within the province. The discussion will definitely guide us to prepare a strategic guideline for all forest and wildlife lovers. We are grateful once again for the encouraging words of all respected personalities.

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World Wildlife Day, 2021 Celebration by Mithila Wildlife Trust

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Mithila Wildlife Trust celebrated World Wildlife Day 2021, today on March 3, 2021, at 7:00 AM, surrounding Doodhmati River, Basbitti, Janakpur. Members of the Historical Doodhmati River Cleanliness Campaign, local bird enthusiasts, students, and nature lovers enjoyed the identification of important bird species in their localities. The presence of Mr. Chakra Timalsina from Koshi added essence to the birding. He is here in Janakpur for 5 days in training. Being a member of one of the key birder groups at Koshi Tapu Wildlife Reserve, he joined us early morning to promote birding culture in Janakpur. Mr. Ganesh Sah, Research Assistant was the leader and assisted by Mr. Manoj Chaudhary, Office Assistant of Mithila Wildlife Trust.

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Pangolin Conservation in Province No.-2, Nepal

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Eight species of Pangolins are found in the world, among them, two species are found in Nepal; Chinese pangolin (Mani spentadatyla) and Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) are found in Nepal. In Nepali, Chinese pangolins called Kalo salak and Indian pangolin is called Tame salak. In Terai, Pangolins are locally known as Sal Machhari. Pangolins hold the title of most trafficked animal in the world. Its scale is largely used in China and Vietnam for various purposes from meat, medical to luxury, and many more. Pangolins are very elusive mammals and like to live inside the burrows and are more active at night. They are solitary animals and hard to see in the wild. They are a very slow breeder and gives birth to a single baby in a year. When we talk about the conservation of wildlife people have more interest and inquiry a lot about its importance in day-to-day life. As we know, Nepal is an agricultural county and the majority of people still depend on farming. Pangolins are a boon for them, Pangolins not only nourished the soil but eat the insects that feed on our crops. One adult Pangolin consumes more than 70 million ants and termites in a year. Which is immensely useful for crops and vegetation. Data from the paper of Tulshi Laxmi Suwal (2020) describes that among eight districts of Province No:-2, Saptari has been confirmed to have Chinese pangolin and Parsa has confirmed to have Indian pangolin, and reaming all five districts have evidence of the presence of pangolin. Habitat destruction is a major problem in forests of lowlands these days. Lack of awareness about wildlife conservation is another challenging work. Our work should be a focus on documenting the evidence of Pangolin with the motto to think globally and act locally, we celebrate World Pangolin day to create awareness about this elusive creature. Join us to conserve Pangolin and other wildlife in Province No.-2 of Nepal.

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Inception of “Stewardship and Rural Development for Poor and Marginalized Frontier”

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The inception Program of “Stewardship and Rural Development for poor and marginalized frontier communities living alongside protected areas and high conservation value species” has been conducted successfully at Hotel Baba Ko Dhaba, Janakpur. The program was chaired by Sh. Ganesh Ray, Advisor, Mithila Wildlife Trust, Chief Guest was Hon’ble Ram Chandra Kandel, Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, Special Guest was Jagarnah Jaiswal, Forest Director, Forest Directorate Province No.-2, Janakpur, And guests included Nand Lal Ray Yadav, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forest and Environment, Sunil Karna, DFO, Dhanusha, Shom Prashad Sharma, Chairman, FECOFUN, Province No.-2, Shiv Narayan Sah, Retired Assistant Warden, Janakpurdham-8, Madhav Bhandari, Chairman, Doodhpani Community Forest User Group, Durga Lama, Chairman, Sunakhari Community Forest User Group, Shyam Lama Gole, Chairman, Bhatighari Community Forest User Group and team members of Mithila Wildlife Trust including Treasurer, Rasilal Pandit.   Host, Mr. Dev Narayan Mandal, Chairman, Mithila Wildlife Trust, and Subhash Sharma, Social Mobilizer for the project has presented the organizational and program overview.   The project is supported by UKAID through Zoological Society of London, Nepal, and will be implemented in close coordination and guidance of Divisional Forest Office, Dhanusha in Doodhpani Community Forest User Group, and Sunakhari Community Forest User Group, Mithila Municipality-11, Dhanusha, Province No.-2. The main objective of the project is to train Dalit, Janajati, and Financially marginalized members of both CFUGs and provide them with seed money through the establishment of community banks. Several intensive trainings, interactions with community members, and joint patrolling are the essence of the project which will ensure that the fund is properly utilized and dependency on community forests is reduced, thus, providing secure natural habitat to the wildlife in both community-managed forests.   The inauguration program was very successful. Everyone was very happy for organizing this and ended with beautiful remarks and suggestions from all the guests.

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