Project data
- Started: 1, Jul 2003
- Planned end date: 30, Jun 2010
- Managing Office: WWF Nepal Programme Office
- Address:
WWF Nepal Programme Office
/ Baluwatar
Kathmandu
Post Box 7660
Kathmandu /
Nepal /
+977 1 4434820 - Status: active
- Modified: 25, Aug 2009
- Published: 23, Sep 2009
Wetland management in Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP). Nepal.
© WWF Nepal / Rajendra Gurung
Geographical location:
Asia/Pacific > Southern Asia > Nepal
Summary
Located in the shadow of the Himalayas, the Terai Arc covers 5 million hectares from Nepal's Bagmati River in the east to India's Yamuna River in the west. The rich grasslands and forests provide critical habitat for greater one-horned rhinos, royal Bengal tigers and Asian elephants and much more. The region is also home to more than 6 million people who depend on its resources for their livelihoods.
WWF is working with wildlife authorities and local communities in the Terai Arc to further protect the region from such threats as forest conversion, overgrazing, logging, forest fires and poaching.
Objectives
1. Ensure the presence of flagship species in the corridor habitat.
2. Maintain and improve existing habitat within protected areas.
3. Safeguard the viability of rhino and tiger populations in Nepal through active biological management.
4. Reduce illegal killing of rhinos, tigers and other important wildlife in TAL to levels where they no longer threaten their viability.
5. Develop and put in place and effective plan to address the emerging human-wildlife conflict issues.
6. Establish and put in place a sound biological monitoring system in TAL to measure the impacts of conservation.
7. Ensure the endorsement of the vision of TAL and the Strategic Plan of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMG/N) by all major partners and stakeholders.
8. Attain full cooperation and collaboration from communities and other stakeholders in the management of forest corridors and protected areas.
Solution
The programme areas under target are Parsa Wildlife Reserve, Royal Chitwan National Park, Royal Bardia National Park, Royal Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, Basanta and Khata Corridors, Mahadevpuri, Lamahi and Dovan bottlenecks. Taking 2,000 data as baseline, populations of tigers, rhinos and elephants are to be stabilised by 2006 and increased by 2010.
Means of verification will include status reports on wildlife species, research reports on wildlife monitoring outside protected areas, forest and vegetation maps of protected areas and corridors/bottlenecks, and a monitoring plan exploring the details of (measurements) to assess populations and habitats in place.
The important assumptions for the project are that the situation in Nepal is conducive to carry out conservation efforts in the protected areas, corridors/bottlenecks of TAL and government policies will include landscape level conservation.