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Inter School Quiz Competition

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On the 38878066_10155791762367934_2368342784894566400_noccasion of 10th Anniversary of NYCA, a team conducted Inter-School Quiz Contest on 10th August in Kapan. Seven different schools from the locality had participated in the program. Three students from each school participated in the program. The venue for our contest was Samten Memorial Education Academy and syllabus for the quiz questions involved Environmental, Climate Change issues and Science questions.

The contest included two rounds- General Round and Rapid Fire Round. Eight questions were asked in the general round and five questions were asked in the rapid fire round for each team. Fairy Land International Academy secured the first position whereas Brain Land Academy and Kailash Bodhi Secondary School got the second and third position successively. The contest gave a good message about climate change and the present scenario of plans and policies to the pa38880969_10155791762602934_5196646927621423104_nrticipants as well as the audience present during the session.

The program ended up with the closing remarks by Mr. Shakti Nepal, Former Principal of Samten School. NYCA represented a determined team and motivated youths about the issues of climate change during the program.

GREEN DISCUSSION:Status of Tiger Monitoring in Nepal;Comparing results of the Past(2008/09&2013/14)

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38461394_2081645442101501_1165160658161893376_nOn 3rd August, 2018 Nepalese Youth for Climate Action-NYCA organized Green Discussion on ENPHO Hall Tapagaun. Respected Jhamak B.Karki, PhD presented on the Topic “Status of Tiger Monitoring in Nepal; Comparing results of the Past (2008/09 &2013/14).” Around 85 Participants from different institutional background was present in the Discussion and the program was interactive. He stated that Tiger can be identified by body marks Face marks, Tail marks. He mentioned about Line transact and its practical use in Nepal and also about camera trapping which have been used in recent tiger monitoring. He concluded that camera trapping is more reliable than pellet counting method.  Participants raised the Question about Tiger monitoring. Camera trapping is not use in case of Rhino because Each Tiger have different footprint to be identified but Rhino cannot be distinguish. Male and female tiger can distinguish on the basis of Pug mark.

Green Discussion:”Urban Mobility:Is Road Expansion a Sustainable Solution?”

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On 20th July 2018 Nepalese YIMG_20180720_154519outh for Climate Action-NYCA organized Green Discussion on the Topic “Urban Mobility:Is Road Expansion a Sustainable Solution?” .It was Presented by Resources person Ms. Rashmi Maharjan (Program Officer-Clean Energy Nepal) in presence of participants from different institution.She highlighted that Sustainable urbanization most be people centric rather than vehicle centric. She also stated that Road expansions are not the sustainable solution. Though road are expanded in some areas in Kathmandu but the congestion and road accidents are still same incase in the phase of increasing.

She requested all the participants to use Eco friendly transportation so that emission contribution to the environment will be less and directly can help in reducing Green House Gas(GHG’S).

School Awareness Program

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On 15th July 2018 Nepal37117190_10155728725147934_8946276281813565440_oese Youth for Climate Action Organized School Awareness Program in Sahid Sukra School, Bagbazar under leadership of XV team.Program focused mainly on Climate Change. School Administrative and School Student were positive towards the program

Panel Discussion: “Climate Change and Curriculum.”

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On 23rd April 2018,Nepalese Youth for climate Action together with Clean Energy Nepal organized panel Discussion on Patan Multiple Campus on the topic “Climate change and curriculum” in presence of panelist 31165906_10155539476717934_4158449621602926592_oDr.Sudeep Thakuri(Central Department of Environment Science-CDES),Amrit Sharma(Head of Department Patan multiple Campus),Raju Chauhan(Amrit science college) and Sanju Shrestha(NYCA).Discussion was based on the Climate change and the way to combat its effect ,Theoretical and practical content included in the syllabus of Bachelor level course and Youth perspective .Around 55 participants participated in the program and the Discussion was interactive. It was moderated by Mr.Rajan Thapa(Program Manager-CEN).

PLANTATION

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Plantation is one of the way to combat the climate change and to protect our earth from increasing climate change and its effect.Nepalese youth for climate Action organized Plantation campaign as the theme #म र मेरो बिरूवा   from 20th march 2018 .Participants    pictur31081686_10155537640702934_7728846511609479168_ne of their newly planted plant along with them. The person who could 31190008_10155537640197934_2991423375676538880_nsend the picture with the same plant after 1 year would be awarded.As the closing of this campaign we have done plantation on the occasion of Earth Day April 22nd ,2018 at   Rehabilitation Center gokarneswor.

GREEN DISCUSSION:”Impact of Land Use/Land Cover on Water Balance.

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River resources has been affected by various factors, including long term effect of climate change altering rainfall-runoff relationship, and short term effect  due to  human interventions e.g., land-use and land-cover (LULC), dam construction etc. The combined effects of both disturbances may have led to water shortages. From recent study we find that LULC is the major  primary factor and more dominant over climate change, in the reduction of water discharge from rivers.

Nepalese Youth for Climate Action together with Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) organized Green Discussion program on the topic “Impacts of Land-use and Land-cover (LULC) on Water Resources” on 2nd April, 2018 at ENPHO Hall, Thapagaun, Baneshwor.  Mr. Lalmani Wagle, Program officer of CEN presented about the land use and land cover impacts on water resources as well as also shared his research paper of Sardu khola of Dharan. This presentation was of open type of discussion. He stated that Land Use and LaIMG_20180402_150402nd Cover are two different things but commonly we use it as synonym. Land cover is a biophysical cover whereas land use is human use of land resources. According to Mr. Wagle the objective of the research was to study the impact of land cover on water quality of Sardu river. He added that during the process of urbanization the soil erosion rate has been high while infiltration and recharge rate of water in soil has been decreased. Consequently the level of water resources increases while raining and slowdown in few hours. The land cover of dharan has been changing in last 20 years (grassland-forest, agricultural land-settlement and flood plains-forest and settlement). Also the water parameter such as dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, hardness, solids, chloride and many more has been altered.

Throughout the discussion questions was raised by participants . At the end of discussion he concluded that the water quality of Sardu river which is one of major water source of dharan is in its natural condition in the  source and seems to be  slightly polluted in downstream. Over 40 Participants from different institutions and organizations attended the Green Discussion and  participants were interactive.

म र मेरो बिरुवा

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Wanna be part of plantation????29496585_10155455774022934_5542916738737242112_n

म र मेरो बिरुवा is a one month long campaign with the concept key to greener earth is in your hands.
Follow these steps-
1. Plant a tree/sapling
2. Send a picture of you planting a tree/sapling to nyca.np@gmail.com with short caption
3. Share the photo uploaded in our page
4. Pass the challenge of plantation to two or more of your friend circle
5. Again, after one year you have to share the picture of your plant to us.
You will be appreciated with certain award
This campaign will last untill 22nd April Earth Day with plantation program and was started from 20th march 2018.

We have been receiving  positive responses from the participants with lot of plantation picture till date .This campaign aims to increase My(your ) responsibility towards better earth.

GREEN DISCUSSION:”YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ENVIRONMENT”

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On 16th March 2018 Nepalese youth for Climate Action together with Clean Energy Nepal-CEN o29244184_10155445474867934_8918860719584182272_organized Green Discussion program on the topic “Youth Entrepreneurship and Environment.” in presence of Mr. Pankaj Panjiyar, Business Head (E-Waste Management) as a Resource person among 55 enthusiastic youth from different institutional Background.He stated that the E- waste is main problem in context of our country which is in the phase of development .He also motivated youth  to find out and grab the opportunity that is around you .