Strengthening Civil Society for Biodiversity Conservation Support Project
Grantee Name: Ilam Cooperation Council
- Hotspot
- Himalaya
- Location
- Nepal
- Amount
- $60,165
- Dates
- Mar 2007 – Mar 2009
- Keywords
- Buffer zones, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Conservation planning, Forestry, Land use planning, Livestock
Strengthen civil society participation in all stages of corridor management and incorporate conservation issues in community, private, and national forest management plans in selected sites in the Nepali sector of the Kangchenjunga-Singhalila Complex. Through the development of a multi-stakeholder civil society forum, this project will reduce threats to existing forests from encroachment, over-grazing, and unsustainable harvesting of forest resources.
1 Build on existing landscape conservation initiatives to maintain and restore connectivity and to protect wide-ranging threatened species in priority corridors with a particular emphasis on the Bhutan Biological Conservat
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