Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a festival held every five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South of the Himalaya, the strip of lowlands along the Nepalese-Indian border is known as the Terai. Here, grasses and forests fed ...

KATHMANDU, July 28 (Reuters) - A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival there every five years has indefinitely banned animal sacrifice, India's Humane Society ...

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KATMANDU, Nepal — Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ...

Nepali activists rallied in Kathmandu on Friday calling for an end to religious animal sacrifices, months ahead of a festival that in the past has seen tens of thousands of animals slaughtered. Some ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Yadav Ghimirey, one of the pioneering clouded leopard researchers in Nepal, shares his challenges and achievements of conducting camera trap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nepal is a landlocked country, sandwiched between two of the world's great superpowers: India and China. When people think of ...