One in three Bhutanese overweight, finds study
The increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on health facilities demands greater multi-sectoral actions for the implementation of NCD prevention activities. NCDs are a major public
Kuensel (Bhutan)
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Birdflu outbreak suspected in Yangbari
A bird flu outbreak is suspected in Yangbari village in Gongdue, Mongar after 30-40 chicks were reported dead from nine houses last month. The deaths were reported to the department of livestock on
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Forest fire rages in East and West
While the forest fire that had been burning in the two gewogs of Mongar for the last two days spread to a third gewog, Tongla in Kengkhar gewog yesterday, some 60 people were battling another forest fire
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Forest fire in two Mongar gewogs
A forest fire that had started at dawn on March 31 near Resa in Saling gewog in Mongar was still raging as of last evening. Resa is a village at the south of Saling. Mongar dzongkhag’s forest officer
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Asian news editors meet for climate change
News editors from 18 Asian countries deliberated media’s role in fighting climate change in a two-day conference “Himalayan system in a changing climate future and media’s role” which ended yesterday in
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Six birds join list of protected animals
The Cabinet yesterday added six birds to the list of protected wild animals in Bhutan under the Forest and Nature Conservation Act. This, forestry officials said, was the first change since the Act’s
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Snow leopards disappearing?
The study, worth Nu 2M, World Wildlife Fund officials said would focus on the snow leopard population and their places of existence to help prioritise the best areas for conservation. WWF conservation
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Lifestyle diseases creep into rural areas
Changmey health assistant Karma Wangdi has an old patient of his to see in the evening. His patient Sangpo, 58 from Kharmey under Shongphu gewog in Trashigang has been bed-ridden for almost a year following
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Agriculture will bear the brunt
Climate Change Of late, farmer Rinchen of Semtokha is seeing some strange behaviour in her garden. When trees in her garden at this time of the year shed leaves, a few apple trees have flowered again;
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Glaciers shrinking fast
National Glaciers Within the last three decades, glaciers of Bhutan shrank by 189sqkm, less than half the size of one of the country’s smallest dzongkhags, Pemagatshel. It is a fall by 7.3 percent,
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Hundreds of acres of chirpine razed
Bumdeling Park, Sershong, Mongar 12 October, 2011 - A forest fire that has been burning for the past three days may have destroyed more than 500 acres of chirpine forests of the Bumdeling park in Sershong,