93 new species found in Nepal

new-found-frog I was talking about one more addition to the 863 species of birds found in Nepal in my previous post. Recently  WWF released a news about 350 more species of living things found in the Eastern Himalayas in the past decade in which 93 of them were found in Nepal. Among the 93 species 40 were plants, 36 mammals, 6 fishes, 2 frogs, 9 reptiles. Not all, but 10 were given a Nepali name ‘nepalenses’.

In Nepal we don’t do much research (don’t have resources) on these things so I suspect it is only a part of a bigger story. Much of the higher Himalaya is highly inaccessible and they should hold much of the unidentified species. As an example, never finding a giant Yeti can suffice on our ability to find all the unspotted species.

Well, that was the discovery of a group formed by WWF.

The group found that almost three-quarters of the discoveries between 1998 and 2008 were plants, including 21 new orchid species. But it also listed 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, two birds, two mammals and at least 60 new invertebrates. Most of the discoveries have already been reported in peer-reviewed, scientific journals.

If you are interested in reading the full document it can be downloaded in pdf format from panda.org website.

Nepali Movie – Sano Sansar (2008)

Quest Entertainment presents, Nepali Movie: Sano Sansar
Directed by Alok Nembang
Production Quest Entertainment
Starring: Namrata Shrestha, Binay Sharestha, Jiwan Luitel, Arjun Shrestha, Sushila Rayamajhi, Nir Shah, Jyoti Rana etc.

An average guy named Ravi (Karma) has just graduated from his college. Ravi doesn’t know what he wants in life, like most of the new graduates. In the other hand, Reetu (Namrata) is a not an average girl and she knows what she doesn’t want. And there is another character named Suraj (Vinay Shrestha), a sureheaded fellow who knows what he wants in his life. Monoj Sizapati (Jeevan) wants what every guys wants. In the little world (‘Sano Sansar’) they live in, everyone knows everyone else even if they think they do not know them….

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