Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands

The overall project goal is to ensure the maintenance and enhancement of wetland biodiversity and environmental goods and services for improved local livelihoods, while the inmediate objective is to strengthen national and local capacity in ecosystem management and sustainable uses of wetland BD in Nepal. The two pilot demonstration sites were selected from among four wetland sites identified buy the PDFB document and represent two different types of tenure: one is a protected area and its buffer zone and the other is a national forest area.