Northern Mountains Conservation Project
WWF Nepal launched the Northern Mountains Conservation Project (NMCP) in 1996 in Shey-Phoksundo National Park (SPNP) in collaboration with the Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) with the aim to conserve biodiversity and to improve socioeconomic status of local communities of the SPNP and buffer zone area.
Shey-Phoksundo National Park (SPNP), located in remote Dolpa and Mugu districts of Nepal is the largest National Park of Nepal (3,555 km2). SPNP represents the unique collection of flora and fauna of Trans Himalayan ecosystem, including rare, endangered, and endemic medicinal plants and the prime habitats for snow leopard, Tibetan wolf, musk deer, blue sheep and several endangered wildlife species. Due to its rich natural and cultural diversity, it has been proposed as a World Heritage Site.
NMCP aims at addressing the problems of increasing pressure on forest and pasture resources from livestock, poaching, illegal and unsustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products.
