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"KATHMANDU — Nepal’s pioneering landscape-level ecosystem restoration
initiative, aimed at creating dispersal space for tigers, has been globally
recognized for its efforts to fight and reverse ecosystem degradation. Yet
sustaining the success is rife with hurdles such as infrastructure development,
human-wildlife conflict, political instability and climate change
uncertainties, experts caution.
Launched in 2004, the Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) initiative, which led to the
restoration of 66,800 hectares (165,000 acres) of forest and nearly tripling of
the endangered Bengal tiger (
Panthera tigris tigris) population, has been
honored as one of seven U.N. World Restoration Flagships by the U.N. Decade on
Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30) program jointly led by the U.N. Environment
Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
“We are glad to receive the recognition from the U.N. as one of the seven best
examples of ecosystem restoration around the world,” said Dipak Gyawali, deputy
director-general of the Department of Forest and Soil Conservation. “The
landscape is important, as it connects different ecologically critical
protected areas, not just in Nepal, but also in India,” he added.
The Nepal portion of the TAL spans from the Bagmati River in the east to the
Mahakali River in the west, covering an area of 24,710 square kilometers (9,540
square miles). It is home to a variety of wild animals such as tigers,
elephants (
Elephas maximus), rhinoceros (
Rhinoceros unicornis), gharials
(
Gavialis gangeticus), hispid hares (
Caprolagus hispidus), sloth bears
(
Melursus ursinus) and river dolphins (
Platanista gangetica), as well as
more than 500 species of birds, many of them endangered."
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