conservation
It is said that "Nothing is impossible in this world" and this has been proven by the altruistic work of Mr. Devendra Gautam whose sheer effort has helped to restore Kathmandu’s Kamal Pokhari to near its original condition. The pond is located at the center of Kathmandu City. It was formerly known as Bhim Jujuka Pokhari, famous for the lotus and was originally spread over 48 ropanies (c...
In Nepal, Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems (FMISs) dominate the number and the irrigated area. They were built and managed by farmers themselves for centuries. The main objective of this paper was to analyse the factors that made thes FMISs function well for so long. FMISs communities have indigenous but ultra-modern knowledge of layout, construction, management, ecology and hydrology....
Seti River is one of important components of the ecology of Pokhara so it holds a great significance for maintaining ecological balance and fulfilling different types of needs of people here. But only a few people are aware of its real value while others are pretending to be unaware of this and are accelerating its pollution. It's true that its pollution is not as devastating as the pollution...
Within the Himalayan region, Nepal is one of the countries that receive the largest number of international tourists, and also one where tourism has shown relatively rapid growth. The recent decades in Nepal tourism is being explored as one of the avenues for local development and it is second important source of foreign exchange for Nepal. This paper is an attempt to present the brief...
The research explores the current and future conservation regime, and local population ecology of globally threatened water bird Sarus Crane (Grus antigone antigone) in Rupandehi, and Kapilvastu districts of Nepal. The study strongly recommended to declaring certain areas of these districts as a...
This paper emphasises wildlife biodiversity and the management techniques and drawbacks particularly in Bhawal National Park. The park was declared a National Park in 1982; there was a great diversity of animal species at Bhawal National Park especially peafowl and jungle fowl dating back to the British era as well as the Pakistani era. But unfortunately during and after 1971 there were...
Conservation and management of rangelands require clear understanding of species composition. The objective of this paper is to show the differences in species composition, abundance, mean cover and height between the grazed and ungrazed plots in a specific pasture of Lo Manthang VDC in Upper Mustang. Two seasons' data were collected during July (wet season) and November (dry season) 2005....
In this paper the authors attempted to present a glimpse of linkage between the nomads living in the pasture of Upper Mustang and their role in biodiversity conservation. The nomadic rangeland in Upper Mustang region harbors endangered Trans-Himalayan species like snow leopard, lynx, brown bear, Tibetan wild ass, Tibetan argali etc. with a variety of birds. It also harbours various medicinal...
The Royal Chitwan National Park with an area of 932 sq.km, situated in the inner Terai, is the first national park established in 1973 for the conservation of the greater one–horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). The Royal Chitwan National Park located at the junction of Paleo–arctic to the north and Oriental to the south Bio-geographic realms, is with the mosaic of varied...
Conflict between people and wildlife is a major conservation issue that is difficult to resolve. It is difficult to decide what to do when the needs of people clash so directly with the needs of threatened species. The study was conducted in Paschim Kusaha VDC, adjoining area of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve from Jan1997 to Jan1998 to identify the major conflict issues existing between reserve...
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