There are less than 4000 wild tigers alive in the world today. The foothills of the Nepalese, Indian and Bhutanese Himalayas are particularly important for ...
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Moving mountain
On his quest to map the consequences of climate change, mountain hydrologist Walter Immerzeel and his team venture to heights where other scientists do not ...
Environmental drivers of spatio-temporal dynamics in floodplain vegetation: grasslands as habitat for megafauna in Bardia National Park (Nepal)
By Jitse Bijlmakers, Jasper Griffioen and Derek Karssenberg Disturbance-dependent grasslands, often associated with hydromorphological and fire dynamics, ...
Roaring Rivers: Understanding the dynamics of TAL rivers and their ecosystem services
By Kshitiz Gautam, February 2023 The Himalayan rivers emerge out of the mountains into the flat lands of Nepal, India and Bhutan. This landscape is called ...
To what extent is morphodynamics of Terai Arc Landscape rivers altered by human actions?
By Kshitiz Gautam, Mathieu E. Roebroeck, Thom Bogaard, Astrid Blom – April 2023 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of ...
Workshops on human-water-wildlife interactions
Jeroen Rijke, March 2023 How to understand human-water-wildlife interactions along rivers systems of the Terai (Nepal) and support a shift towards ...
Video on field campaign to Karnarli River Bardiya National Park in Nepal
Kshitiz Gautam, March 2023 The river systems in Treai Arc Landscape (TAL) of Nepal and India are one of the most important shared resources between ...
Field work in the Kanali Floodplain
By Mayuri Phukan, January 2023 Mayuri Phukan is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University. Her research will establish the hydrogeology of the Himalayan ...
Field work in Karnali River Basin (Upper hills and mountains)
By Pranisha Pokhrel, November 2022 Karnali river catchment lies in western Nepal and covers an area of more than 40,000 km2 with many snow-fed rivers as ...
Field work in Bardia National Park
By Zoë Kleijwegt, November 2022 In the fall of 2022, prof. dr. Jakob Wallinga, dr. Jeroen Schoorl and I visited Nepal. Although we are yet to analyze any ...