The rural electrification project, replete with challenges in Bhutan, is likely to miss the December 2014 deadline. Read more in October 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Bhutan.

Going by the current pace of developing hydropower projects, in a matter of just five years, Bhutan could be providing consultative services in hydropower sectors in the region.

After vanishing from Delhi, the endangered vultures are facing the threat of extinction in the Indian subcontinent also.

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal are connected by the combined system of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, but erratic water supplies and pressures of population growth are leading to tensions over management of these transboundary waters. GOLAM RASUL outlines the main issues of transboundary water management in this Himalayan basin and the opportunities that exist to improve cooperation between these countries.

The Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan 2014 is the thirty second edition of an annual series published by the National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan. It provides a comprehensive and systematic current statistical information of the key socio-demographic and economic characteristics of Bhutan. Through this publication, users will be able to glance Bhutan’s economy and population based on the latest available information.

Hydropower: Survey work of the proposed site of the biggest hydroelectric project in the country, the 2,640MW Kuri-Gongri hydropower project dam is underway.

Forestry: If the country harvested timber like it did in the last five years, the country would go barren, forestry officials warn.

While Bhutan has made remarkable gains in reducing extreme poverty, sections of its population remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty, says the Bhutan Poverty Assessment Report.

Some 140 tiger experts and government officials from 20 countries met in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Sunday to review progress towards an ambitious goal of doubling their number in the wild by

: Eradicating extreme poverty is achievable for Bhutan in 22 years time, going by the current pace, the country’s first poverty assessment report says.

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