Kumar Paudel
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Conservationist. Director @GreenhoodNepal. Alum @Cambridge_Uni, @IWTnet. Explorer @InsideNatGeo. Admirer of pangolins and plants.
Articles by Kumar Paudel
A framework for addressing racial and related inequities in conservation - Nature
Abstract In 2020, a global surge of activism linked to the Black Lives Matter movement prompted scientists to stage an academic ‘strike’, drawing attention to the ethical responsibility of addressing systemic racism. This catalysed debate in conservation, adding urgency to decades of scholarship on marginalization.
Controlling wildlife crime saves more than species (commentary)
The illegal wildlife trade threatens many species worldwide but also jeopardizes local communities’ well-being and livelihoods, breaks down law and order in society, compromises people’s safety and security, and promotes corruption, a new op-ed argues. Organized criminal networks typically depend on vulnerable, cash-poor people in local communities to capture and transport wildlife across borders, but even when they’re not caught, the damage to their families and communities can be great.
Putting the poor in prison won’t stop wildlife crimes
When poor people have money, they buy bread, not a tiger head. But it is they who are punished, while racketeers get away. Wildlife crimes are among the biggest challenges for biodiversity conservation, and there is interest worldwide in curbing it. Recently, the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC), the world’s leading body in this arena, highlighted in its biannual report for 2021-2022 that despite global gains, the threat of illegal wildlife trade remains significant.
The silent victims of Nepal’s tiger conservation success
Nepal’s incredible feat of nearly tripling its tiger numbers in just over a decade, announced a few weeks ago, was celebrated worldwide. Indeed, the increase in tiger population, from 121 in 2009 to 355 in 2022, is an impressive accomplishment that has brought this species back from the brink of extinction in the country. The resource-constrained nation has done so by clamping down on rampant poaching and protecting critical tiger habitats.
Evaluating the reliability of media reports for gathering information about illegal wildlife trade seizures
Introduction The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) generates multi-billion-dollar illicit revenues annually, pushing many threatened species towards extinction (UNODC, 2016; UNEP, 2016). In order to design effective interventions, policy-makers and conservation practitioners need information about the scale of IWT, the methods and routes used by traffickers, and the species involved.
Nepal’s unequal wildlife laws
From the centre to local governments, there are many wildlife crime and poaching control groups at work in Nepal. Some 8,000 Nepal Army soldiers are deployed to guard national parks across the country and the Nepal Police even has a separate branch for wildlife crime. And yet Nepal is a flourishing hub for wildlife trade. Contraband from Africa and Asia are transported to China and beyond across the Himalaya.
Rare anti-cancer tree on verge of extinction
Only few hundred Maire’s yew trees are left in Nepal’s mountain wilderness
Conservation enforcement: Insights from people incarcerated for wildlife crimes in Nepal
ABSTRACT There are long‐standing debates about the effectiveness and social impacts of enforcement‐based conservation, particularly as investments into enforcement increase in response to growing alarm about Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT). However, there is little data on the people subject to this enforcement, including prison sentences, species targeted, what motivates and deters them, and the social impacts of enforcement.
A call for the wildlife
We need global commitment and coordinated actions to save the iconic endangered species from extinction, in ways that are also fair across countries This week, environment ministers and conservationists from dozens of countries, including Nepal, will be meeting in London to discuss illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and strategies to protect the world’s endangered species from the threat of extinction.
On the brink
On the brink Published On: February 16, 2017 12:25 AM NPT By: Kumar Paudel Conservation is not only about rhinos and tigers. Many little known species also need protection As we approach the World Pangolin Day on February 18th, I recall a recent visit to a village called Namdu, which lies 30 km east of Charikot, Dolakha on the way to Jiri. The village is home to the Baiteshwor Higher Secondary School. It is surrounded by 30-40 scattered houses on the left of Lamosanghu-Jiri road.
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