Wildlife and Protected Areas of Nepal : Resources and Management

Contents: 1. Why this book? 2. Introduction. 3. What is wildlife? 4. Wildlife and its importance. 5. Zoogeography of Nepal. 6. Review of literature of Mammals. 7. Outline classification of living mammals of world. 8. (a) Checklist of mammals reported from Nepal. (b). Checklist of rats and mice. 9. Description of mammals of Nepal. 10. Distribution of mammals found in Nepal and other places. 11. Concept of wildlife protected areas in the world. 12. Definitions of wildlife protected areas. 13. Wildlife protected areas. 14. National Parks. 15. (a) Royal Chitwan National Park. (b) Crocodile Conservation in Terai, Nepal. 16. Royal Bardia National Park. 17. Sagarmatha National Park. 18. Langtang National Park. 19. Rara National Park. 20. Shey-Phoksundo National Park. 21. Khaptad National Park. 22. (a) Makalu Barun National Park. (b). Makalu Conservation Area. 23. Shivapuri National Park. 24. Wildlife Reserves. 25. Royal Suklaphanta wildlife reserve. 26. Koshi tappu wildlife reserve. 27. Parsa wildlife reserve. 28. Conservation areas. 29. Annapurna conservation area. 30. Manasalu conservation area. 31. Kanchanjunga conservation area. 32. Hunting reserves. 33. Dhorpatan hunting reserve. 34. Protected areas in ecological zones. 35. Some facts about protected areas of Nepal. 36. Major problems in protected areas. 37. Natural heritage of Nepal. 38. Ramsar sites (wetland conservation). 39. Ecological distribution of wildlife. 40. Vegetation patterns in protected areas. 41. Common mammals in wildlife protected areas. 42. Park-people relationship. 43. Buffer zones (concept and management). 44. Trans-boundary biodiversity conservation. 45. Terai-Arc landscape concept. 46. (a) Northern Mountains Conservation Project. (b) Concept of sacred Himalayan landscape. 47. Strategies for wildlife conservation. 48. Hunting, trapping and capturing methods. 49. Rules and regulations for visiting wildlife areas. 50. Management of hunting in Nepal. 51. Categories and definition of threatened animals. 52. List of threatened vertebrates and their categories. 53. Extinct and vanishing mammals of Nepal. 54. Endemic mammal of Nepal. 55. Endemic bird of Nepal. 56. Mammals protected in Nepal. 57. Smallest mammal of Nepal and world. 58. Largest mammal of world. 59. Largest mammal of Nepal. 60. Extinct, protected and threatened birds of Nepal. 61. Protected reptiles, Amphibians and fishes of Nepal. 62. How to see, observe wildlife? 63.  What to carry during a Safari? 64. Role of protected areas in preservation of biodiversity. 65. Threats to wildlife. 66. Conservation and management. 67. Some problems facing conservation and management of wildlife. 68. Causes of extinction. 69. Conservation. 70. Wildlife management. 71. Tourism in protected areas. 72. Select references. 73. Index. The authors.