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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 …

International Training Program (ITP) -Locally Controlled Forest Restoration (LoCoFoRest). Read More »

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 …

Ecology of Snow Leopard and Strengthening Community Engagement for its Conservation in Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal. Read More »