Himalayas
The tendency for first-time visitors is to see the Himalayas as timeless and unchanging. Families thresh rice by hand, the sheaves swinging overhead, sending up plumes of dust, then down, swot, on a rock, over and over, until all the dry kernels of rice break loose and rain...
Norlha - Helping people in the Himalayas - is happy to share with you the report of the Nov 19 Symposium on the challenges facing agricultural communities in the Himalayas.
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KATHMANDU: Mountain communities in Nepal have joined their hands to form an alliance in order to save mountain ecosystem which, they said, is more vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.
Formally announcing a 17-member Climate Alliance of Himalayan Communities (...
Youths from eleven Himalayan states- Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Darjeeling- have gathered for the first Himalayan Youth Summit that shall address serious issues relating to environment and state-...
Water levels of the critical rivers that originate in the Himalayan glaciers will not drop over the next century, say scientists.
The latest research led by Dr Walter Immerzeel, a scientist from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and visiting scientist at the International...
The e-conference, Mountain to Mountain Cooperation: Sustainable use of biodiversity, including genetic resources, in the Himal-Andes, (12-30 June 2006) represented a significant step in furthering inter-regional and intra-regional cooperation and of building new and strengthening existing alliances for sustainable mountain development within the framework of the Mountain Partnership. The...
Mountain communities have traditionally been stewards of globally significant mountain resources. As more mountain resources are used, downstream beneficiaries have contributed little or no reinvestment in the resources or their traditional stewards, the mountain communities. As a result, mountain resources are being depleted at unsustainable rates, and traditionally self-reliant mountain...
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