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ANSAB held series of events in Nawalpur district to commemorate the World Earth Day-2022. To mark the Earth day, ANSAB in partnership with the Sahid Smriti Community Secondary School and in close coordination with Divisional Forest Office, Nawalpur, carried out awareness raising activities, that included street rally, orientation…

Mr. Puspa L. Ghimire, ANSAB’s Programs Director, presented on “Challenges in international trade of CITES listed species - A case of Jatamansi from Nepal” during a CITES orientation workshop organized by the Department of Forests and Soil Conservation on April 19, 2022. The workshop was organized to inform…

ANSAB, as the recipient of the Asia Pacific FCPF Capacity Building Project on REDD+, organized project launch workshop on March 28 and 29, 2022 in Kathmandu. The workshop brought together 23 representatives of the sub-project recipients, regional advisory committee members, and the project relevant staffs from ANSAB and…

ANSAB and the Department of Forests and Soil Conservation, jointly organized a CITES policy review workshop on March 25, 2022. During the workshop, policy related opportunities and challenges for the sustainable harvesting and trade of CITES-listed plant species in Nepal was shared and discussed that would be helpful…

ANSAB, as a recipient of the Asia Pacific FCPF Capacity Building Project on REDD+ for the civil society (CSOs) and local communities (LCs), has awarded the following three sub-projects, one for each in Fiji, Nepal and Vietnam to implement the country level capacity building activities. Fiji: Building Capacities…

ANSAB and Manfred-Hermsen-Stiftung (MHS) Foundation, jointly organized an inception workshop of the project “Nature Conservation and Agroforestry Production in Rural Communities” on January 28, 2022, from 14:15 -16:00 pm Nepal time, 09:30 -11:15 am German time. The purpose of the workshop was to share the project implementation plan…

Himalayan Bio Trade Limited (HBTL) has received the FairWild certification for Jatamansi and Kutki from Jumla district of Nepal. The collection and processing of these high value non-timber forest products have complied with the performance indicators defined in the FairWild Standards. HBTL is the first company in Nepal…

A Darwin Initiative funded project, Succeeding with CITES: Sustainable and equitable Jatamansi trade from Nepal, has been implemented in Nepal from July 2018 to March 2021 Nepal with the objective to promote legal and sustainable international trade in Jatamansi (Nardostachys jatamansi), through use of the international best practice…

Despite the enormous natural wealth with its rich and unique biological and cultural diversity and traditional craftsmanship as well as a high proportion of economically active population, Nepal still remains as one of the poorest countries in the world. One of the causes for this is the poor…

The Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE) has developed the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) Regulations of Nepal in order to address the inadvertent ban on exports of CITES-listed species from Nepal that was caused after the promulgation of CITES…

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, ANSAB is concerned about the danger it poses in Nepal, particularly, the impacts on the rural poor communities it serves. As the virus has spread to high-density areas, working people neighborhoods, and other centers of vulnerability and poverty, we have now faced health,…

ANSAB and Jiri Municipality jointly organized a PPCA (Public-Private-Community-Alliance for Sustainable Natural Products-based Enterprises and Local Economic Development) planning meeting in Jiri, Dolakha on February 5, 2020. Participants of the meeting included over 30 individuals including Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer of Jiri Municipality, Ward Chairpersons, ANSAB’s Executive…