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Implemenation and
Management of WTLCP
 

WTLCP at a Glance

 WTLCP is a 8 year long project (August 2005-July 2012)
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It aims at achieving vision of landscape level conservation in Nepal
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 Western Terai Landscape Complex stretches from Bardia National Park in the east to Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in the west
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 It works in 52 Village Development Committees (VDCs) of 3 districts in western Nepal viz. Bardia, Kailali and Kanchanpur. WTLCP is also working on few other VDCs supported during Western Terai Landscape Building Programme (WTLBP) period.
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 The project is in line with the National Biodiversity Strategy, Tenth 5 Year Plan and Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) Strategic Plan
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 A total contribution of US$13.1 million (cash and kind) from partners
 
WTLBP to WTLCP

In May 2004, after signing a working arrangement between MFSC, SNV Nepal and WWF Nepal, WTLBP was initiated as a frontloading programme of the WTLCP. The frontloading programme, supported by the Government of the Netherlands through SNV Nepal, continued till December 2005 with a budget amounting US $664000. WTLCP, although started in August 2005, carries a rich experience from its frontloading programme - WTLBP, implemented adopting the Terai Arc Landscape modality initiated by WWF Nepal.

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Western Terai Landscape Complex Project

Landscape level conservation is a new paradigm in conservation arena crafted to address the issue of expanding human needs and their pressure on the ecosystem. In this initiation, conservation is extended beyond the boundary of protected area to cover larger landscape of different land-use patterns.

With an aim to develop replicable landscape-level management model(s) to safeguard the biological wealth and vital ecological functions in Nepal, WTLCP was launched in August 2005 after signing an agreement between the Government of Nepal and the UNDP. The eight-year long project is a joint initiative of Government of Nepal and seven national and international organisations.

The project's landscape approach envisions integrated ecosystem management to achieve the multiple objectives of conservation, sustainable natural resource management and poverty alleviation by reorienting biodiversity management approaches and its institutional arrangements. The project was designed to address major biodiversity threats of agriculture encroachment and squatting in forestlands; high grazing pressure in the forests; overexploitation of forest resources; and the replacement of traditional agricultural crop varieties and landraces with modern cultivars.

Goal

The overall goal of WTLCP is to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity in Nepal's Western Terai Landscape Complex.

 
Objective

The immediate objective of WTLCP is to establish effective management systems and build capacity for the conservation and sustainable use of Nepal's Western Terai Landscape Complex.

 
Expected Project Outputs
The national policy environment and legal framework for integrated landscape planning in the Western Terai Landscape Complex enabled;
the institutional framework for integrated landscape management of biodiversity in the Western Terai Landscape Complex established;
biodiversity assets in government managed lands are conserved and sustainably managed; and
local communities empowered to practice sustainable, biodiversity friendly natural resource and land use management and pursue diversified livelihoods.


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United Nations Development Programme The Global Environment Facility SNV Nepal WWF Nepal Program Nepal Agricultural Research Council Bioversity International LI-BIRD Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MFSC)

Western Terai Landscape Complex Project
Foresty Complex, Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Tel: +977-1-4262310, 4218458 Fax: +977-1-4225553 , P.O.Box: 24417

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