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25/06/2026

The State of Environment - A Blueprint for Gandaki's Future!

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Home Nepal Stories A Blueprint For Gandaki’s Future A Blueprint for Gandaki’s Future June 2, 2026 Photo: UNDP Nepal The Government of Gandaki Province has launched its first State of Environment Report, providing a comprehensive assessment of environmental conditions, trends and challenges acros...

11/06/2026

Day 11 — Kagbeni to Ghami
24th May 2026

Day 11 opened in Kagbeni with a community engagement walk led by Dhara Gurung, former Chairperson of Baragaun Muktichhetra Rural Municipality and owner of Hotel Yak Donald. Using the walking-talking method, the group moved from the river confluence through the village — observing flood impacts and river systems up close, engaging with community members, and pausing for questions and answers along the way. Covering a municipality that spans key destinations including Kagbeni, Muktinath, Chhusang, and Samar, Dhara brought threads of history, culture, tourism, and climate change together through the landscape itself. 🌊

On the road toward Ghami and into Upper Mustang, the group stopped at Shree Janajyoti Secondary School — a semi-governmental institution supported by both the Government of Nepal and Maitri Ratna Nepal. Notably, the school also sustains itself in part through apple orchards planted on school grounds, cultivated and sold commercially to fund its operations. 🍎🏫

A school growing its own future, literally.

After arriving in Ghami, Yangchen Dolkar — a transect faculty member and Executive Director from the Lo Gyalpo Jigme Foundation — led an Upper Mustang 101 session, offering participants a deeper understanding of the region’s history, culture, governance, and present-day realities before the journey continued deeper into Upper Mustang. 🏔️

08/06/2026

Day 10 of the Himalayan Planetary Health Transect — Lupra & Muktinath
When the Land Holds the Knowledge
23rd May

Day 10 was a quiet reminder that planetary health has deep roots — spiritual, geological, and ecological all at once. 🏔️

The group visited Lupra Village, nestled between Jomsom and Kagbeni, home to a predominantly Bon community — an ancient animistic religion predating Buddhism with roots stretching back over a millennium. Inside and outside the 800-year-old Young Drung Phuntsok Ling Monastery, students spoke with the lama, gaining a rare insight into how climate and environmental change are interpreted through the Bon lens. The rituals and practices of this community, deeply connected to the natural world, revealed how indigenous knowledge has long contributed to the preservation of water sources, ecology, and biodiversity — long before these became research priorities. 🙏

While one group set out on a hike toward Muktinath, others stayed for a geology walk led by Professor Brian G. McAdoo along the riverbanks — where ammonite fossils and ripple marks in the rock revealed something almost unbelievable: this land was once a sea. 🪨

The rest of the group explored the village further and visited the school perched uphill.
Everyone reconvened at Muktinath — one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in the region, revered by both Hindus and Buddhists — a fitting place to end a day spent moving between ancient knowledge systems.

Photo (5) courtesy : Ruikang Wan, Duke Kunshan University
Photo (12,13,14) courtesy : Honglin Yan, Duke Kunshan University

08/06/2026

Day 9 of the Himalayan Planetary Health Transect — Marpha & Jomsom
Apples& Mountain Health
22nd May 2026

Day 9 split the group across two parallel tracks through Marpha, before reuniting for two of the most substantive community engagements of the transect.

One group met with local apple farmers and visited the Temperate Horticulture Development Centre — exploring climate-induced threats to apple cultivation, irrigation, and the mountain agricultural economy. 🍎 The other walked through Marpha Valley and Old Marpha Village (Dhamang), observing traditional architecture, daily life, and the quiet interplay between culture and tourism before winding through the apple orchards. 🏘️

Reconvening in Jomsom, the full group sat down at the Federal Public Health Office and Provincial Hospital Mustang for a dialogue on mountain health systems — covering rural healthcare access, maternal health, climate-health connections, and local government coordination. 🏥

The day closed with an interaction with Bhongmor Agricultural Cooperative, where Kamala Lalchan and members representing five villages within Gharapjhong Rural Municipality spoke about women’s leadership, cooperative agriculture, the apple economy, sustainable tourism, and youth opportunities. 🤝

Photo (10-12, 16) courtesy: Ruikang Wang

07/06/2026

Day 8 of the Himalayan Planetary Health Transect — Pokhara to Marpha
On the Road, Never Just Passing Through
21st May 2026

The journey from Pokhara to Marpha was long — but the transect never wastes a road. Every stop carried meaning. 🚌
The first halt offered a sweeping view of the Phewa watershed alongside a visible landslide scar on the hillside — a moment to pause, observe, and discuss the forces of erosion, land use, and climate at work across an entire landscape. A single vantage point, but a conversation that stretched far beyond it. 🌄

Further along, the group stopped in Tukuche — a predominantly agricultural village where traditional practices have remained largely intact. Flat mud roofs, carved wooden doors, and traditional irrigation systems still in use. Farmers here continue to cultivate ancient varieties of barley and wheat, untouched by industrial agriculture. 🌾 The group also visited Shree Sahid Yogendra Secondary School, a stop that added an educational and community dimension to the portrait of Tukuche.

A visit to a local apple brandy distillery rounded off the stop — students observed the distillation process firsthand and heard directly from the owner about the craft behind it. 🍎

07/06/2026

Day 7 of the Himalayan Planetary Health Transect — Pokhara
Three Doors, Three Worlds
20th May 2026

This day took a different shape — the group split into three, each diving into a distinct dimension of planetary health in Pokhara simultaneously. 🏙️

One group sat down with Mr. Shesh Kanta Sharma, outgoing President of the Nepal Mountaineering Association and a celebrated former trekking guide, at the Karma Flights office. The conversation ranged wide — Pokhara’s identity as a gateway to mountain tourism, the pressures that rapid road development is placing on that identity, what it means to become a trekking guide in today’s landscape, and the environmental and logistical challenges that come with high-altitude rescue operations. A fascinating window into an industry at a crossroads. 🏔️

A second group visited the Department of Urban Planning, Environment, and Sanitation at Pokhara Metropolitan City, where focal person and department head Prabhat Lamichhane led a discussion on urbanization, waste management, and the environmental challenges reshaping Pokhara’s growth. 🗑️

The third group headed to Manipal teaching Hospital for an in-depth interaction led by the Director of the Hospital, Prof. Dr. Abhishek Maskey, on hospital facilities, services, disease epidemiology in the region, and the often-overlooked issue of hospital waste management — a critical intersection of health systems and environmental health. 🏥

Three groups, three conversations, one city

06/06/2026

Day 6 of the Himalayan Planetary Health Transect — Pokhara
19 May 2026

Day 6 was exactly what the transect is built for; layered, immersive, and full of moments that connect the dots between ecology, community, and climate. 🌿

The day opened along the Kahare Khola, where Dil Bahadur Bhattarai, who works on the conservation of the Phewa Watershed, introduced students to Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) frameworks and practices unfolding across the landscape. A key stop was the Siltation Dam, a concept designed by Dr. Sanjaya Devkota based on the ecosystem services framework. Because the watershed regularly yields large volumes of sediment, silt, and boulders, these dams were built to intercept and arrest this material before it reaches Phewa Lake, helping to reduce siltation and extend the lake’s lifespan. The captured sediment also contributes to the local economy, as it can be used as construction material by Pokhara Metropolitan City. A quiet but powerful piece of engineering in service of an entire ecosystem. 🏞️

From there, students moved into Damdame Community; an agriculturally rooted settlement with a predominantly elderly population. Splitting into five thematic groups, students went deep into Beekeeping and Biodiversity, Agriculture, Water Sources and Management, Public Health, and Nature-Based Solutions each group accompanied by a local community member and faculty, engaging in interactive sessions that brought the data to life through real conversations and real land. 🐝

The afternoon brought students to the Gurung Museum of the Sidhane Community, where indigenous knowledge systems and traditional tools that have sustained the community for generations were on full display, a reminder that planetary health has always been practiced long before it was named. 🏛️

The day closed beside the Harpan Khola, at the site of the devastating flash flood and landslide that struck Harpan Gaun in late July 2015. The village no longer exists — in its place, vegetation and trees have slowly reclaimed the land. Students next to what was once a community, now returned to nature. A profound and quiet end to a profound day. 🌱

24/05/2026

Day 5 — Chitwan to Pokhara via Bandipur
On the Road & In the Community
18th May 2026
Day 5 was a day of movement, but the journey was far from passive. 🚌

En route to Pokhara, students made a meaningful stop in Bandipur, one of Nepal’s most cherished heritage towns. Led by Bikram Piya, President of the Rotary Community Corps Bandipur, and accompanied by municipal authorities, homestay owners, and hotel entrepreneurs, the conversation was rich and wide-ranging. Students heard directly from the community about Bandipur’s cultural history, the climate changes locals have witnessed and felt over the years, solid waste management, the evolution of tourism and urbanization, and the community’s determined efforts to preserve their heritage amid rapid change. 🏘️

What made the session particularly powerful was the human texture of it, these were not experts presenting data, but residents describing their own landscape, their own sky, their own town shifting around them.
By the time the group reached Pokhara, the road had been long and the day full. Yet students gathered their energy for one more task — presenting their group findings from the Bote community interactions in Madi Valley, bringing the voices and observations from Day 3 back into the room. 🎤

A long day, but one that carried the transect forward in every sense.