Written by Bishnu Bhatta, PSD-Nepal Director In the picturesque Langtang National Park, nestled within the Rasuwa district of Nepal, our pioneering initiative in sustainable environmental practices is slowly gaining traction. At an elevation of 2000 meters plus, our mountain recycling project has taken root, gradually blossoming into a beacon of…
Bishnu Bhatta, Director of PSD-Nepal, recently attended the Grand Challenge Annual meeting in Belgium where he gave a presentation about the work of PSD. Attendees at the meeting included representatives of the Bill Gates foundation, the Wellcome Trust, USAID, EU donors and many more, so it was a wonderful opportunity…
Nepal has tremendous opportunities on the beekeeping due to the richness in the honeybee’s species and the availability of plenty pasture diversity. The beekeeping in Nepal contributes to the economics boost up of the rural and marginalized landless farmers. Besides the economic contribution from the bees’ products, beekeeping enhances the…
By: Bishnu BhattaDirector – Partnership for Sustainable Development The world is becoming increasingly industrialized, with pollutants and contaminantsreleased into the environment constantly. Nepal and the South-Asian region arenoticeably polluted. As such, more deliberate and increased efforts are required tocreate positive environmental & social change. Partnership for SustainableDevelopment (PSD) is a…
Nepal has a lot of plastic waste – and when I say a lot, I mean really a lot! It’s one of the negative side-effects of having so many trekkers coming through, drinking from plastic bottles, and not wanting to carry their waste. Each bottle thrown away on its own…
Here follows some information sent through by Bishnu, our partner in Nepal, about the work that PSD-Nepal are carrying out to help with promoting and developing community gardens, even where the only open space is on the roof! Community and School garden in Nepali context Nepal has been an agricultural…
The Rasuwa region of Nepal is one of the prime trekking areas of the country, and visitors come from all over the world to climb the local mountains in Langtang National Park. Trekking tourism is the main source of income for the local people, and so the tourism industry is…
Welcome to the world of plastic bottle upcycling, as spearheaded by CRED Partner PSD-Nepal. Based in some of the main trekking areas of Nepal, the volume of waste plastic, tin and glass bottles produced by the tourist industry is ruining the environment at an alarming rate, and PSD have decided…
