WWF has been involved in landscape level conservation projects in the Himalayas and the Terai. In Nepal, WWF's focus has been on species, forests, climate change, and freshwater.
More than a billion people directly depend on the Himalayas for survival. Some scientists predict that if climate change is not controlled, the glaciers that provide much of the livelihood from these mountains could be gone in just 25 years.
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The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species should cause alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure so far of mechanisms to arrest biodiversity loss, WWF said today. More than one third of the ...
More than 250 experts, scientists and government delegates from 13 tiger range countries this week called for immediate action to save tigers before the species disappears from the wild, citing the urgent need for increased protection against tiger ...
The Government of Nepal announced today an expansion of Bardia National Park in the Terai Arc Landscape by 900 sq km, which will increase critical habitat for tigers.