When
Speaker: Uday R. Sharma, Senior Environmentalist of Nepal
Date: Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Time: 3:00-4:00PM
Location: ENR2, S107
Nepal has created impressive array of protected areas to include viable samples of biodiverdity found in the Himalayas. Management of protected areas has gone through several major phases. These include reconciling the needs and aspirations of local people and harnessing the economic opportunities offered by tourism and its associated threats. Nepal over three decades has gone through several paradigms. The current mode is community based conservation through two distinct models: Integrated Conservation and Development concept, as applied in hill Conservation Areas, such as Annapurna, has shown conservation programs can be complimentary to the local development efforts. The other concept, based on Impact Zone concept espoused from a research at the University of Arizona in 1991, calls for strict control of forests in the park, together with intensified agriculture and forestry on public properties outside the park with the intension of increasing the production of natural resources that are in local demand. Nepal has incorporated this concept in most of its national parks and reserves by creating special legal provisions for it, which includes returning 30-50% of park generated revenue to the communities for the local development. But, there are still challenges, that also will be discussed in the presentation.
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