Damber Bista

Qualifications

• MSc in Environmental Science (2008, Tribhuvan University, Nepal)

Publications

• Damber, Bista, Lama, Sonam T., Weerman, Janno, Sherpa, Ang P., Pandey, Purushotam , Thapa, Madhuri K., Acharya, Haribhadra, Hudson, Nicholas J., Baxter, Greg S. and Murray Peter J. (2021). Improved Trapping and Handling of an Arboreal, Montane Mammal: Red Panda Ailurus fulgens. Animals 11:921.
• Shrestha, Saroj, Thapa, Arjun, Bista, Damber, Robinson, Nathan, Sherpa, Ang Phuri, Acharya, Krishna P., Jnawali, Shant R. and Lama, Sony (2021). Distribution and habitat attributes associated with the Himalayan Red Panda in the westernmost distribution range, Nepal. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9): 4023-4034.
• Karki Sikha, Maraseni, Tek, Mackey, Brendan, Bista, Damber, Lama, Sonam T., Gautam, Ambika P., Sherpa, Ang P., Koju, Upama, Shrestha, Anita and Cadman, Tim. (2021). Reaching over the gap: A review of trends in and status of red panda research over 193 years (1827-2020). Science of the Total Environment 781:146659.
• Thapa, Kanchan.; Thapa, Gokarna J.; Bista, Damber.; Jnawali, Shant R.; Acharya, Krishna P.; Khanal, Kapil; Kandel, R.C.; Karki, Thapa, M.; Shrestha, Saroj. and Lama, Sonam T. (2020). Landscape variables affecting the Himalayan red panda Ailurus fulgens occupancy in wet season along the mountains in Nepal. 
• Dendup, Pema, Humle, Tatyana, Bista, Damber, Penjor, Ugyen, Lham, Choki, Gyeltshen, Jigme. (2020). Habitat requirements of the Himalayan red panda (Ailurus fulgens) and threat analysis in Jigme Dorji National Park, Bhutan Ecol. Evol., 10:9444-9453.
• Bista, Damber, Baxter, Greg S. and Murray, Peter John (2020). What is driving the increased demand for red panda pelts?. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 1-15.
• Lama, Sonam Tashi, Ross, James G., Bista, Damber, Sherpa, Ang Phuri, Regmi, Ganga Ram, Suwal, Madan Krishna, Sherpa, Pema, Weerman, Janno, Shrestha Lama, Shrota, Thapa, Madhuri, Poudyal, Laxman Prasad and Paterson, Adrian M. (2019). First photographic record of marbled cat Pardofelis marmorata Martin, 1837 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in Nepal. Nature Conservation 32 19-34.
• Bista, Damber, Paudel, Prakash Kumar, Jnawali, Shant Raj, Sherpa, Ang Phuri, Shrestha, Saroj and Acharya, Krishna Prasad (2019). Red panda fine‐scale habitat selection along a Central Himalayan longitudinal gradient. Ecology and Evolution 9 (9) 5260-5269.
• Acharya, Krishna Prasad, Shrestha,Saroj, Paudel, Prakash Kumar, Sherpa, Ang Phuri, Jnawali, Shant Raj, Acharya, Sakshi and Bista, Damber (2018). Pervasive human disturbance on habitats of endangered red panda Ailurus fulgens in the central Himalaya. Global Ecology and Conservation 15 e00420.
• Bista, Damber, Shrestha, Saroj, Kunwar, Ajaya Jang, Acharya, Sakshi, Jnawali, Shant Raj and Acharya, Krishna Prasad (2017). Status of gastrointestinal parasites in red panda of Nepal. PeerJ 2017 (9).
• Bista, Damber, Shrestha, Saroj, Sherpa, Peema, Thapa, Gokarna Jung, Kokh, Manish, Lama, Sonam Tashi, Khanal, Kapil, Thapa, Arjun and Jnawali, Shant Raj (2017). Distribution and habitat use of red panda in the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape of Nepal. PLoS ONE 12 (10) e0178797.
• Amaël Borzée, Jeffrey McNeely, Kit Magellan, Jennifer RB Miller, Lindsay Porter, Trishna Dutta, Krishnakumar P Kadinjappalli, Sandeep Sharma, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Fikty Aprilinayati, Gerard E Ryan, Alice Hughes, Aini Hasanah Abd Mutalib, Ahmad Zafir Abdul Wahab, Damber Bista, Suchana Apple Chavanich, Ju Lian Chong, George A Gale, Hanyeh Ghaffari, Yadav Ghimirey, Vijaya Kumaran Jayaraj, Ambika Prasad Khatiwada, Monsoon Khatiwada, Murali Krishna, Ngwe Lwin, Prakash Kumar Paudel, Chinara Sadykova, Tommaso Savini, Bharat Babu Shrestha, Colin T Strine, Makamas Sutthacheep, Ee Phin Wong, Thamasak Yeemin, Natasha Zulaika Zahirudin, Li Zhang. (2020). COVID-19 highlights the need for more effective wildlife trade legislation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(12): 1052–1055.