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Nepal Halts Industry Around Buddha’s Birthplace, Home to Endangered Cranes

Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered all polluting industries within 15 km of Lumbini, famed birthplace of the Buddha, to close or relocate within two years, preserving Buddhist heritage and Nepal’s largest population of sarus cranes, a threatened species with cultural and ecological value.

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Nepal’s Supreme Court ordered all polluting industries within 15 km of Lumbini, famed birthplace of the Buddha, to close or relocate within two years, preserving Buddhist heritage and Nepal’s largest population of sarus cranes, a threatened species with cultural and ecological value.

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