Global Voices recently conducted a face-to-face interview with Gobindaram Chepang in January 2024, the Chairperson of the Nepal Chepang Association, to gather more information on the implications for ...

Nepal has been a signatory to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since 1993. At present, protected areas cover 23.39 percent of the country’s total land area. In 2022, COP15 ...

The cultures of Indigenous peoples across the world have traditionally depended on native plants and animals. It is when these culturally significant species start disappearing that the ways of life ...

On March 27, Nepali authorities evicted about 100 members of the Indigenous Chepang community living in Chitwan National Park and set fire to their huts. They allege the community members are ...

Aryan Praja grew up hearing stories about the versatile chiuri tree that provided his Chepang community with food, honey, medicine, and was an intrinsic part of the culture. Paja’s village of ...

As many as 31 households of Chepangs, a nomadic community, living in far flung Mahadevsthan of Brushbang, Dhading, have sought resettlement in better places owing to famine and water crunch. Brushbang ...