25 Years of Achievements on Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal

Contents: 1. Policy and Institutional Reform to Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Bishwa Nath Oli and Maheshwar Dhakal. 2. Agrobiodiversity in Nepal/Yubak Dhoj G.C. and Anil Kumar Acharya. 3. Aspects and Prospects of Farm Animal Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Grishma Neupane and Prakash Mathema. 4. Major Achievements of 25 Years of Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Maheshwar Dhakal. 5. Forest Coverage and Biodiversity in Nepal/Deepak Kumar Kharal and Milan Dhungana. 6. REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation/Sindhu Prasad Dhungana. 7. Nature-based Tourism, Protected Areas and Economic Development in Nepal/Siddhartha Bajra Bajracharya and Maheshwar Dhakal. 8. Status and Opportunity of Scientific Forest Management in Nepal/Ishwari Prasad Poudel; Vijaya Raj Subedi and Dipak Jnawali. 9. Conservation Education for Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Bishnu Prasad Shrestha. 10. Conservation Breeding Centers in Nepal/Laxman Prasad Poudyal; Bed Bahadur Khadka; Amir Sadaula; Krishna Prasad Bhusal and Kamal Prasad Gairhe. 11. Bird Conservation in Nepal/Hem Sagar Baral; Laxman Prasad Poudyal; Raju Acharya and Tulsi Subedi. 12. Small Mammals Conservation in Nepal/Sanjan Thapa, Tulshi Laxmi Suwal, Sagar Dahal, Hari Basnet. 13. Ex-situ Conservation of Plants and Botanical Gardens in Nepal/Dipak Lamichhane. 14. Watershed Management: Contributing towards Biodiversity Conservation/Ram Singh Thapa and Jagannath Joshi. 15. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities/Kamal Samarung ‘Kamal Kumar Rai’. 16. Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation/Yadav Uprety; Amit Poudyal and Racchya Shah. 17. Current Status of Wetlands in Nepal/Juddha Bahadur Gurung. 18. Landscape Conservation Approach and Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Laxmi Dutt Bhatta. 19. Leasehold Forestry: Its contribution to Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration of Land Degradation/Pashupati Nath Koirala. 20. Policy Reform on Forest Use for Non Forest Purposes/Chandraman Dongol. 21. Transboundary Cooperation in Biodiversity Conservation/Dhananjaya Lamichhane. 22. Role of Media in Biodiversity Conservation/Ramesh Bhushal. 23. Bio-Finance and Biodiversity in Nepal/Rajesh K Rai and Vijay P Kesari. 24. Role of Private Sector in Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal/Kalyan Gauli and Sony Baral.