Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time

Meet the Nepali lawyers defending nature one case at a time

KATHMANDU — Recently, one morning in Kathmandu, senior lawyer Padam Bahadur Shrestha reclined in his cluttered second-floor office in a neighborhood near Nepal government’s administrative headquarters Singha Durbar. On one side lay stacks of files pertaining to civil cases. On the other side, an equal number of files related to the country’s forests, rivers, flora and fauna. “The civil cases allow me to earn a living for myself and my family,” S…