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The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has pledged an assistance of 39,000 Euros to support communities impacted by the devastating floods of October 2025 in Ilam, Nepal. 

Ambassador Udo Volz, on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, signed the grant agreement with Country Director Shakeb Nabi of Deutsche Welthungerhilfe for an Emergency Relief Support Project in Ilam, reads a statement issued by the Embassy of Germany.

The project will assist disaster-affected communities in Ilam district, ensuring lifesaving assistance and enhancing resilience against future disasters. 

The project will support households in highly affected areas in Ilam District, with a focus on marginalized groups, women and children. That includes the provision of food as well as essential items such as mattresses, tarpaulins, warm clothes, dignity kits and blankets, according to the statement.

The local implementation partner is Rural Reconstruction Nepal. 

The project is slated to be completed by December 2025.

Germany remains committed to supporting the people of Nepal, also in difficult times. During the floods in September 2024, Germany provided 100, 000 Euros for disaster response, dedicated to relief efforts in Sarlahi and Rautahat Districts, implemented by One Heart Worldwide.

The Valley Traffic Police Control Room which was set on fire during the September 8–9 Gen Z demonstration, has been rebuilt. 

The reconstruction was carried out with the support of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA).

NRNA International Coordination Council Chair, Mahesh Kumar Shrestha, and Vice Chair and Disaster Management Committee Chair, Manoj Kumar Shrestha, handed over the reconstructed facility to Chief of Kathmandu Valley Police Office, Ranipokhari and Additional Inspector General of Police (AIG) Dan Bahadur Karki today.

The AIG thanked the NRNA for taking the initiative to restore the Control Room. 

He also stressed the need for raising awareness among younger generations for protecting public property.

Senior forestry officials from Indonesia, Viet Nam, and Nepal, private-sector partners and climate finance experts gathered in Seoul this week to chart the next steps for scaling up high-integrity forest carbon transactions across the Asia-Pacific. 

The roundtable meeting, held at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) as part of Global Green Growth Week, was co-organized by UN-REDD to help countries move from REDD+ readiness for results-based finance and Article 6 implementation under the Paris Agreement.

“Countries in the Asia Pacific are demonstrating that protecting forests and building credible carbon markets are two sides of the same coin,” said Gabriel Labbate, Head of UNEP’s Climate Mitigation Unit and Global Team Leader of UN-REDD. “They are moving from readiness to results - building systems that not only store carbon, but also sustain livelihoods, restore ecosystems, and build trust in the markets that finance them.”

Across Indonesia, Viet Nam and Nepal, more than 230 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂e) in potential mitigation results are being readied for verification or issuance - signaling a major pipeline of forest-based climate outcomes linked to community resilience and green investment.

On the occasion, discussion was focused on practical, country-led steps to accelerate verified issuance, clarify national positions ahead of COP 30, and explored how the proposed Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) -  an endowment-style, non-offset mechanism offering per-hectare payments for standing forests - could support and complement domestic efforts to attract long-term, high-integrity investment into forest landscapes.

The tiger census in Parsa, Chitwan, Banke, Bardiya, and Shuklaphanta National Parks is set to begin in mid-Poush (December–January).  

Similarly, the rhino census, which was postponed last fiscal year (2024–25) after donors withdrew their financial support at the last moment, will resume this year as the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) has allocated a budget, though not sufficient, for it.

The tiger census is conducted every four years in Nepal. According to the Department’s senior ecologist Haribhadra Acharya, the upcoming census will run for three months, starting in December–January.

Although the Department has planned to carry out the rhino census in March–April 2026, it is reconsidering the schedule as it coincides with the national elections announced for March 5, 2026.

The rhino census will be conducted in Chitwan, Parsa, Shuklaphanta, and Koshi Tappu National Parks. The Department has allocated Rs 1.8 million for the tiger census, though the total cost is expected to exceed Rs 15 million. 

Likewise, Rs 1.8 million has been allocated for the rhino census, which is estimated to cost over Rs 10 million. The remaining funds will be sought from donors, officials said.

In the previous tiger census conducted in 2022, Nepal recorded a total of 335 tigers: 128 in Chitwan, 125 in Bardiya, 25 in Banke, 41 in Parsa, and 36 in Shuklaphanta.