The Ghunsa helicopter crash on 23 September 2006 devastated Nepal’s nature conservation movement by taking the lives of 24 people, among them six of Nepal’s pioneer conservationists. Six years on, the void is slowly being filled by community-based environmental groups who are protecting the legacy of putting local people at the centre of conservation activities. http://nepalitimes.com/issue/2012/09/22/Nation/19647#.UJJQPWmH7yC