KATHMANDU, Feb 20: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against 19 individuals, including eight forest officers from Kapilvastu, accusing them of corruption by exceeding the permitted amount of tree cutting.

CHITWAN, July 26: A man was injured in a rhino attack in Chitwan. Kundan Lama, 31, of Ratnanagar Municipality-8, who was picking fiddlehead (neuro) in the Bagmara Community Forest, was attacked and injured by a rhinoceros at 10 AM today (Tuesday).

TANAHUN, Feb 11: Officials of the Division Forest Office (DFO) on Monday recovered the dead body of a male leopard in a forest of Bhanu Municipality-4.

TANAHUN, Dec 18: After failing to catch the man-eater leopard despite intense search for three weeks, the District Forest Office (DFO) of Tanahun has installed foot-hold traps in probable areas of community forest in Bhanu Municipality where they suspect the leopard might be caught.

MUGU, Jan 19: For a week, more than a dozen community and national forests have caught wildfire at Chayanath Rara Municipality, Mugu. The fires have killed wild animals, charred trees and medicinal herbs, destroyed grazing lands and turned nearby surroundings smoky. However, neither communities nor the District Forest Office (DFO), seem to care to douse the fires.

JHAPA, May 9: District Forest Office (DFO), Jhapa, has forwarded a process to create an 'Elephant Corridor' to reduce the terror of wild tuskers that has been a great nuisance and threat for the locals.

RAUTAHAT, Feb 7: District Forest Office (DFO) of Rautahat on Sunday scrapped the ownership of about 122 bigha of forest lands which were illegally owned by some individuals with the help of the forest officials.

RASUWA, Sept 25: A huge quantity of precious sandalwood was found to have been stolen from the government’s store itself. The sandalwood was seized from smugglers while being taken to China through Rasuwa route.

DHADING, Sept 23: The District Forest Office (DFO), Dhading has demolished the office building of Dhading Radio 106 MHz along with an adjoining women’s security building located inside Amarawati Community Forest in the Nilkantha Municipality on early Friday.