Prospect and implications of other effective area-based conservation measures in indigenous Chepang landscape in Nepal

The stakeholders should be clearly informed and meaningfully engaged with the OECM framework before implementation

Originally published on Global Voices

Image by the author. Used with permission.

Nepal has been a signatory to the United Nations’ Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) since 1993. At present, protected areas cover 23.39 percent of the country’s total land area. In 2022, COP15 — the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ...