Madhyapur Thimi photo wins an international award

The lone survivor, a photo taken in Kamaretaar, Madhyapur Thimi, has won the Asian Tree of the Year 2018. The photograph of a Peepal Tree was by Ashin Poudel. The winner was jointly announced by Janez Potochnik, former EU Commissioner for the Environment, and the CEO of Carbon Consulting Company Sanith de Silvia Wijeyerante, amid a function last week, held in Brussels, Belgium.

The top three winners of the Tree of the Year Nepal, organized in February of this year, were selected to compete with photographs from Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Brunei. The winning tree, which is on the brink of destruction at a sand mining site in Bhaktapur, was selected by a team of professional photographers and creative heads.

“Being a part of this competition has made me conscious of the nature and trees around me,” Poudel said upon winning the competition, “I hope [the photos] will make people aware of the biodiversity and motivate them to conserve in the coming years.”