Category: News

‘Deer for the Tiger’, Shyam Thapa’s PhD in Wageningen

Welcome to the renewed website of the Himalayan Tiger Foundation. The upcoming year signifies for us ‘full speed ahead’ once again,...

/ January 21, 2024

Food for tigers

 W ith the growing number of tigers inhabiting Bardiya National Park (BNP) an increasingly relevant question is how much ‘food’...

/ June 4, 2019

No water, no tiger.

The relationship between the tigers, the deer as most important prey animals, the grasslands and the groundwater table of Bardiya National...

/ February 11, 2019

In search of the Mountain Ghost

S now leopard (Panthere unica) is a close family member of tiger (Panthera tigris). Although HTF is mainly focussing on...

/ January 15, 2019

How sustainable is 2xT?

N epal is the first of all ‘tiger states’ that doubled its number of tigers. Not in 2022 but already...

/ December 5, 2018

On the ecology of rivers: insects and plants

D ramatic interventions are taking place in the river system that provides Bardiya National Park with water. A new water...

/ October 16, 2018

Better grass, more tigers?

Shyam Thapa is head of the National Trust for Wildlife Conservation in Bardiya but also PhD-student at Wageningen University under...

/ June 20, 2018

Human Wildlife Conflict in South Nepal

Wild elephants attacking people, damaging houses, eating crops. Tigers killing people, leopards preying on livestock. This is the almost daily...

/ June 19, 2018

New website online

This newsletter presents an overview of the current state of the research projects initiated and financially supported by our foundation....

/ May 22, 2018

Dangerous Animals in Bardiya

We stood by one of the side arms of the Karnali River in Bardiya and just about to leave when...

/ May 17, 2017