Biodiversity Conservation in the Kangchenjunga Landscape

Contents: Foreword. Executive summary. Acknowledgements. I. Introduction: 1. Developing transboundary biodiversity conservation landscape and conservation corridors in the Kangchenjunga Complex/Eklabya Sharma. II. Biodiversity Conservation: 2. Protected areas and biodiversity conservation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region with special reference to the Kangchenjunga Landscape/Bandana Shakya and Rabindra Man Joshi. 3. Feasibility assessment for developing conservation corridors in the Kangchenjunga Landscape/Nakul Chettri, Birendra Bajracharya and Rajesh Thapa. 4. Biodiversity status in the potential conservation corridors of the Kangchenjunga Landscape: a distribution model of Flagship and Indicator species/Latika Nath Rana. 5. Biodiversity of Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve – Jigme Dorji National Park Conservation Corridor, Western Bhutan/Damber Singh Rai, Kelzang Tshering, Kinley Gyeltshen, Ngawang Norbu, Sherub, Raling Ngawang and Sharap Wangchuk. 6. Plant resources in the protected areas and proposed corridors of Darjeeling, India/Abhaya Prasad Das, Ram Bahadur Bhujel and Dorje Lama. III. Socioeconomic and Livelihoods Aspects: 7. Landscape elements and agricultural issues in the border villages of Eastern Nepal/Punya Prasad Regmi. 8. Pasture, livestock, and conservation: challenges in the transborder areas of Eastern Nepal/Krishna Prasad Oli. 9. Vegetable production as a potential enterprise for sustainable livelihoods in the border villages of Eastern Nepal/Madan Pariyar. 10. Non-timber forest products as alternative livelihood options in the transborder villages of Eastern Nepal/Madan Koirala. 11. Socioeconomic analysis of the Toorsa Strict Nature Reserve and Jigme Dorji National Park Conservation Corridor in Bhutan/Sonam Choden. 12. Conservation and income generation opportunities from high-value species: Cordyceps Policy in Bhutan and its implications for the Himalayan region/Phuntsho Namgyel. 13. Ecotourism development in the Kangchenjunga Landscape: potentials and challenges/Nakul Chettri, Ester Kruk and Renzino Lepcha. 14. Potential micro-enterprises and income generating activities in the Kangchenjunga Landscape/Dyutiman Choudhary. IV. The policy perspective: 16. Policy issues of land-use and land tenure systems and natural resource Management in the proposed conservation corridors in Darjeeling/Subhabrata Palit. 17. Traditional practices and customary laws of the Kirat People of Eastern Nepal and Comparison with Nepal’s statutory laws/Nrishima Kumar Khatri. 18. A Landscape approach to biodiversity conservation: an evolving scenario and policy perspective/Karma Phuntsho and Nakul Chettri.