The total food production of Dadeldhura district has started to decline as the wild animals continue to destroy crops during harvesting time, according to the District Agricultural Office.

A campaign against menstrual exile (Chhaupadi) has helped change the way people view and treat pubescent girls and women in their monthly cycle in Bhageshwor Rural Municipality, Dadeldhura.

Tiger population in Nepal is concentrated in the Tarai region. That is, at least, what the consensus was until tigers were spotted in Dadeldhura, a hill district in the far-west.

Freed Haliyas (bonded farmers) have demanded investigation into alleged financial irregularities that took place in 12 districts of mid and far western districts during Haliya rehabilitation programme.

Wildfires are raging through several forests, protected areas and bio-corridors in Kailali district, destroying local flora and fauna on their paths.

The Agriculture Inputs Company (AIC) in the south western Nepal has been charging higher for state-subsidised chemical fertiliser, farmers have claimed.

Conflict victims have pressed the government to deliver them justice, arguing that compensation alone would not heal their wounds.