BANKE, March 23: Police have arrested eight people, including Bhola Tharu, the president of Community Forestry Users Committee in Banke's Rapti-Sonari Rural Municipality-5 Binauna.

The agencies concerned can enlist help from the Community Forestry Executive Committee to facilitate the smooth delivery of health support to the needy population. The district-level FECOFUN can also coordinate and cooperate with district-level health centers for medical rescue of the infected people.

KAILALI, Feb 21: Following the provincial assembly’s decision to fix Godawari Municipality as the capital of Sudur Paschim Province, the community forest around the area faces the risk of being encroached upon.

CHITWAN, Sept 20: Aaptari Jaladevi Community Forest has started zip line service for the time in Chitwan district.

BIRATNAGAR, July 17: The Morang-based Hariyalai Community Forest User Group has won the 'Ganeshman Singh National (First) Award' carrying a purse of Rs 100 thousand.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: The community forestry program in Nepal helped significantly increase Nepal’s forest cover which was steadily declining due to deforestation, encroachment and haphazard cutting down of trees back in the early 1990s.