Surveillance to protect red panda cubs begins in hill districts of Province 1

The nurturing season of red panda cubs has begun and this is the time when they are at their most vulnerable, say conservationists.

Cryca Sherpa, a resident of Hangdewa in Phungling Municipality Ward No. 9, Taplejung, used to collect fodder from the forest areas in Pathibhara. But he hasn’t been there ever since the local community group banned people from entering the woodlands.