NTNC member secretary Govinda Gajurel and ZSL representative
for Nepal
signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations.
The project will be implemented at Parsa and Shuklaphanta
Wildlife Reserves, Banke and Bardiya
National Parks , and their
buffer zones with financial assistance from the International Union for Nature
Conservation (IUCN) and German Development Bank (KFW).
The project aims at doubling the number of tigers in Nepal by 2022.
“The project includes management of reserves and national
parks and capacity building, management of tiger’s habitat, strengthening of
the organizations involved in poaching control and livelihood improvement
programmes for the residence of the buffer zones,” read a press statement
issued by the NTNC.
The number of tigers in Nepal increased to 198 in 2013 from
125 four years earlier.
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