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Securing livelihoods, conservation, sustainable use and restoration of high range Himalayan ecosystems.
The Indian Himalayan region is of critical importance for the biodiversity and ecosystems of global significance that it harbors and forms an important life-support system for a large number of remote and agro-pastoral communities that depend on it. Despite the immense biological, socio-cultural and hydrological values of the Himalayan ecosystems, these natural ecosystems are under severe threat from high dependence of local communities on natural resources, pressures from economic development, selective removal of medicinal and aromatic plants, and the emerging threat of illegal wildlife trade and wildlife crime
This region is the center of the globally endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia) range that extends from the mountain of Central and Southern Asia across twelve range countries. The distribution of Snow leopard in India includes the five states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the Western Himalayas and Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas.
Read MoreThe project aims at implementation of four inter-related and mutually complementary Components (project strategies) that are focused at addressing the barriers relating to unsustainable use of land and forests and limited options for alternative livelihoods, inadequate protection and management of areas outside protected area networks and limited wildlife monitoring and wildlife crime related deterrent systems.
Conservation of key biodiversity areas and their effective management to secure long-term ecosystem resilience, habitat connectivity and conservation of snow leopard and other endangered species and their habitats will address the barrier related to limited capacity, knowledge and proven models for conservation of wildlife species, such as snow leopard beyond protected areas.
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Securing sustainable community livelihoods and natural resource management in high range Himalayan ecosystems will support a three-pronged strategy to enhance existing livelihoods, promote alternate and new options of livelihood, support skill-based employment opportunities and improve community natural resources management so as to reduce direct pressures emanating from unsustainable ...
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Enhancing enforcement, monitoring and cooperation to reduce wildlife crime and related threats the project will seek to develop and demonstrate effective wild life surveillance, monitoring, prevent retaliatory killings, prosecution and other deterrent systems and increase international cooperation through establishing cohesive linkages with global and regional conservation initiatives and networks ...
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Gender Mainstreaming, Monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management will ensure improved understanding and participation of key target groups from government agencies (decision makers and staff from key sectors), non-governmental organizations, farmer associations, water use associations and community groups, researchers and others, including in particular women and the most vulnerable segments ...
Read MoreThe target conservation landscapes have been selected to conserve as much of the range of the snow leopard and where opportunities exists to improve community stewardship and partnership:
Proposed Project Landscapes
