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The formulation of natural resource management policy generally involves science, socio-economic environment and legal framework. The thrust of the management policy is to derive maximum benefits from the natural resources while at the same time ensuring that the ecological integrity is not compromised. The basic scientific process elements such as ecological stability, resistance levels,...
This flyer describes the work of The Mountain Institute in Nepal.
Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Planning and Management, a landmark publication jointly published by UNEP, The World Conservation Unit (IUCN) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) is a contribution to the International Year of Ecotourism 2002. The publication aims to assist protected area managers and other stakeholders in the planning and...
Many tourism companies include visits to protected areas, including World Heritage sites, as part of their tourism excursions. These visits could also benefit conservation and site protection, but this requires forging links between parks managers and the tourism industry.
This manual, based on interviews with tourism companies, provides practical guidance on...
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 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...
The viability of biodiversity conservation based uniquely upon a model of protected areas is being questioned in the developing world, and new evidence is emerging on the social and ecological costs of displacing people in order to impose wilderness. This re-evaluation of the strict protected area model is driven in part by new data showing that some human-dominated regimes of land use...
The Sierra de Portuguesa is an Andean mountain system with important biodiversity associated with montane vegetation types. Human use existed well before European colonisation. Coffee plantations and slash-and-burn agriculture have been predominant in the last 200 years. Three distinct national parks — Yacambú, Terepaima, and Guache — were designated there at different times...
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