With the financial assistance from Nature Forward Inc. and Global Diversity Foundation, this project will: i) Build local capacity of communities in sustainable harvesting of medicinal plants, ii) Initiate local level ex-situ restoration initiatives, iii) Raise awareness through ethno-botany festival.
Green Governance Nepal (GGN) will implement activities related to reducing human-wildlife conflict, especially leopards and monkeys, through piloting of the latest technologies. GGN proposes to pilot early detection and warning systems for leopard to reduce human-leopard conflict, promote the upgrading of livestock coral to make it predator-proof, piloting the effectiveness of acoustic tools to reduce …
Donor: GEF Small Grant Programme Duration: June, 2023 to May, 2025 Objectives: The project will support: 1. To restore wetland areas and develop the model of sustainable biodiversity financing. 2. To restore the area invaded by invasive plant ‘Mikania micrantha‘.
Duration: October – November 2021 Partner: Michigan University, USA
Endangered gymnosperm ‘East Himalayan Yew (Taxus wallichiana Zucc.)’ had been heavily exploited all around the range for its’ leaves and bark to produce a chemical called ‘taxol’ which is used to produce the anti-cancer drug ‘paclitaxel’. Along with the unsustainable harvesting of leaves and bark, cutting of trees for timber and firewood, grazing, and forest …
Community-Based Conservation of East Himalayan Yew in western mid-hills of Nepal. Read More »
Funded by USAID/DAI Global/TAYAR Nepal , this project will conduct plantation in urban areas, public spaces and degraded forests in Neelkhantha Municipality of Dhading district and Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City of Dang district.
Funded by: The Swedish Forest Agency, att Anders Malmer ANMA801, SwedenLoCoFoRest will build capacity in national, regional and local institutions and organisations. The programme will give participants the skills and knowledge to enrich their organisations’ capacity to support local communities and entrepreneurs to make forest and landscape restoration scalable and to take advantage of new …
Funded by World Bank, this project will develop ‘Landscape Governance Assessment and Decision Support Tool – LGAT’.
Funded by The Rufford Foundation – UK, this project aims to monitor the snow leopard within the Chum Valley through a camera trapping method and conducts its faecal (scat) dietary analysis. The exact population of snow leopards in the area will be known along with the prey preference of snow leopards from the survey. The …
By changing natural resource use behaviors, building capacity, improving livelihoods, and reducing human Tiger conflict, the Living with tiger Projects aims to secure the safety of people, livestock and tigers and to reduce poverty in key communities in the buffer zones of Chitwan National Park and Bardiya National Park. The program is run by Green …