A campaign to ban plastic bags & mineral water bottles on all trekking routes of Nepal ‘’Water is a natural resource of Nepal and it should be free. Therefore it’s a total non-sense to bring water from the cities to the mountains !’’ – Mahabir PUN, Himanchal Education Foundation Like many lodge owners in Nepal, Hem Bahadur from Chomrung has greatly benefited from a decade of increasing numbers of trekkers…
School representative (left) and journalist Donatella Lorch & Rato Bangala School Principal Santa Dixit (right). On June 29th 2014, Plastic Free Himalaya at Rato Bangala School participated at the workshop with School Leaders to develop “Environment Friendly School” organized by Ministry of Urban Development, Solid Waste Management Technical Support Centre, Executive Director Dr. Sumitra Amatya and co- organizer Rato Bangala School. There were more …
Hem Bahadur Gurung, 52, is a native of Chomrong, Annapurna Circuit. He is the owner of Excellent View Top lodge. He recalls how he started his career as an owner of a small tea-shop. As a child, he grew up in a family that still runs Himalayan Guest House. Since childhood, he was aware that income from tourism is important not just for him and his family but his whole…
As any tour company will tell you, Nepal is the land of the Gods. It is the birthplace of Buddha and home to a vast pantheon of Hindu deities. The power of these gods is taken seriously. Even the secular government has decreed that certain sacred peaks cannot be summited as that might anger the god who lives there. Yet dumping garbage in the country’s national parks and in the…
NEPAL TREKKERS CODE OF CONDUCT During your trekking in Nepal Himalayas – Avoid the purchase or the use of mineral water bottles and plastic bags. – Bring your own water bottle and purifying schemes – pills, liquid, UV – or drink filtered or boiled water available in lodges. – Bring back all your non-organic items such as batteries, aluminum paper and cans, plastic containers (shampoo, etc.), cigarette tips. – To protect rivers, purchase anorganic soap made in Nepal, excellent and easy…
Nepal government through its concerned agencies should : Declare Nepal National Parks and Conservation Areas plastic (bags and bottles) Free Zone. Amend the ‘2038 B.S.Hotel, Lodge, Bar & Restaurant and Tourist Guide Regulation (1981) that should include a provision towards implementing the compulsory rule to provide clean filtered water to visitors thus providing a viable alternative to plastic bottles that are a worldwide recognized threat to the environment. To ban the use of single-use…
MINUTES On January 29th, 2014, the Institute of Crisis Management Studies (ICMS), Plastic Free Himalayas and International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) conducted a policy dialogue symposium on ‘Declare Nepal Himalayas Plastic Bag and Bottle-Free Zone’. The objective of this initiative was to promote a policy recommendation to manage the use of plastic bags and bottles in Nepal’s National parks and trekking areas. Chaired by Dr. Ram Thapaliya and…