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WWF in Nepal

Nepal has been a pivotal country for WWF ever since the organization first provided support to conserve the Greater one-horned rhinoceros and the Bengal tiger in the late 1960s.

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.

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Climate for Life

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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News & Publications

Croatia and Hungary signed today a declaration to establish a Trans-Boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve that will protect their shared biodiversity hotspot along the Mura, Drava and Danube Rivers

Red List update shows up global failure to slow biodiversity loss

Posted on 03 November 2009 | 0 comments

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 ...

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Dr Eric Dinerstein, WWF's Chief Scientist, speaks at the closing ceremony of the Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop, October 30.

Tiger experts call for urgent action to save species

Posted on 30 October 2009 | 3 comments

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 ...

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Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar, stated that the government would establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee.

Nepal expands critical tiger habitat

Posted on 27 October 2009 | 0 comments

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.

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