Abhishu Neupane and Shejal Pradhan sitting with a community forest women's group

About

We started with a simple question.

How do we understand a changing environment without losing sight of the people who already know it?

A community forest users' meeting · GeoSutra

Our story

Youth-led. Nepal-based. Field-first.

Five forestry and ecology graduates who kept ending up in the same places: on porches with forest user groups, in sample plots with a tape, on rivers and in wetlands, in villages after a flood. GeoSutra was registered in 2026 so the listening, the measuring and the returning could keep happening together, across Nepal.

Our worldview: local knowledge + new ways of seeing. Our role: environmental intelligence. Our model: a private company whose professional work lets us keep selected tools, data and learning resources public.

Shejal Pradhan interviewing a man outside a farm shed

Built as a company. Designed to create public value.

Professional work sustains the public work.

GeoSutra is a private company because sustainable environmental work needs a sustainable business model. Organisations commission our professional work. That work sustains the tools, datasets, research and learning resources we make available more widely.

Professional services What we make public

Founders

Five people. Five ways of looking.

Ecology, forestry, GIS, community work and policy. Nobody here only makes maps.

Hemanshu KafleGIS, drones & strategyFlies the surveys and builds the detection pipeline.AN

Abhishu NeupaneWildlife ecology & field researchDesigns the field protocols every model is checked against.KP

Kirtan PanditBiodiversity & species modellingKeeps the biodiversity layers honest. Published pangolin researcher.SB

Samikshya BasnetField operations & community forestryRuns the fieldwork and the relationship with forest user groups.SP

Shejal PradhanResearch, policy & communicationsTurns measurements into the documents decisions are made from.

Advisors

Abiral KhatriClimate finance advisor

ApK

Apsana KaflePolicy advisor

Brian Roth, PhD, RPFForestry advisor

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In the field

Most of the work happens outside.

Interviews on porches, plots in the forest, boats on the river, a classroom full of frog posters, a pugmark in wet sand, a distillery on a hillside. The map is the last step, not the first.