Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

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.

Strategic Direction :

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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