Towards a biodiversity trust fund in Nepal

  • 11/04/1998

Conserving Nepal's biodiversity is not an easy task because of its linkage with poverty which in return lacks generating employment activities. The subsistence on agriculture and a heavy depandance of the rural poor on natural resources are the examples. The inadequate economic return to the people involved in agricultural and forest products have added more complexities to the existing situation. Biodiversity in Terai alone has been declined by 1.3 per cent, all indicating the irreparable loss of species.