"This expedition has taken me to the remote country of Nepal, which is nestled in between India and China. This country's amazing Himalayan landscape contains meadows, wetlands and forests, and is home to endangered snow leopards, red pandas and hundreds of different types of birds."

"My destination in Nepal is the Kangchenjunga Conservation area, which is dominated by Mount Kangchenjunga – the third highest mountain in the world. Its peak is over six times higher than the UK's biggest mountain, Ben Nevis! The forests here shelter many different types of animals and they are also home to a growing number of people."

"In Kangchenjunga, people have lived alongside wildlife for years, and today, humans and animals continue to share the same land. The people here rely on the resources in the forest for their most basic needs. Many of the villages have no electricity, so local communities depend on wood taken from the forest to fuel stoves, which they use for cooking, heating and lighting their homes."

"As Kangchenjunga's population grows, so more trees are cut down to provide everyone with enough wood. As a result, the forests are shrinking, and this has a negative impact on both people and wildlife. Villagers suffer as they are unable to find enough wood for lighting and heating their homes, and animals are left with a limited supply of food and shelter."

"Luckily, WWF is working with the local communities here to find ways of reducing the demand for wood and protecting Kangchenjunga's forests for the benefit of its people and wildlife. One way of saving wood has been to fit solar powered lighting systems to the houses here."

"In the village of Tapethok in Nepal, WWF has helped fit new solar lighting systems to 193 houses. Solar panels use the sun's energy to power light bulbs inside these homes, which means families no longer have to collect wood to burn for light."

"This new solar lighting stores the sun's energy and produces light even when the sun isn't shining, which means the children here now have more time to do their homework! Before, they would have to finish their homework when the sun went down, because they could no longer see."

"Using solar-power to create electricity also has the added advantage of not producing any nasty gases that most traditional ways of creating electricity do. So, like my solar-powered space ship, the lighting systems used here are not contributing to climate change."