2 Sep 09

Celebrating Women and Wildlife in Nepal

First place winner Jaya Manakama Youth Club!

Second place went to Parewashwori Community Forest User Group, and third to Surdevi Youth Club.

In all, there were seven participant groups:

Hands for Conservation
Surdevi Youth Club
Parewashwori Community Forest User Group
Jaya Manakamana Youth Club
Parewashwori Dugdha Utpadak
Ban Devi Community Forest User Group
Pashu Pati Kailashpuri Community Forest User Group

Event organizer Suman Bhattarai was pleased with the contestant participation, audience commitment, and overall turnout for the event. He declared “Women on Conservation” a successful educational outreach endeavor.

Here’s to Women on Conservation!

All images courtesy of Suman Bhattarai, PARC/Nepal.

Celebrating Women and Wildlife in Nepal by Rhishja Larson originally published August 28, 2009 on EcoWorldly.

Rhishja Cota-Larson

I am the founder of Saving Rhinos LLC, which publishes news and information about the global rhino crisis. Besides writing Rhino Horn is Not Medicine, I am the author of the book Murder, Myths & Medicine, the Editor of Project Pangolin, and a writer for the environmental news blog Planetsave. When I'm not blogging about the illegal wildlife trade, I like to rock out to live music.

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