Inter School Quiz Competition

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)

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.