Management Plan of Lamtang National Park and its Buffer Zone.

Lamtang National Park is a merging point of Eastern and Western Himalayan Biotic provenance and represents mid Himalayan ecosystem on the globe. This Management Plan of Lamtang National Park and its Buffer Zone is a policy document covering the period of 2018-2023. The specific objectives of the Management Plan are: 1 To conserve and enhance biodiversity at species, ecosystem and landscape levels by focusing habitats and sites of special importance and giving high priority to nationally protected and globally threatened wildlife species linking with other ecological networks in order to maintain ecological functions and processes; 2 Improve and maintain watershed capability of Langtang region by protecting at catchment level in sustainable way to generate electricity, provide drinking water and irrigation to downstream communities; 3 To promote adventure, nature, cultural and religious tourism in a sustainable manner and regulate it in such a way that it maintains ecological integrity, cultural heritage and flourishing local economy; 4 To enhance community partnership on biodiversity conservation by increasing awareness and improving livelihood of local people; 5 To renovate and construct infrastructures those were damaged by earthquake and strengthen institutional capacity through research, capacity building, co-ordination and collaboration.
To achieve the objectives, the document proposed specific interventions in Park protection, habitat management, species conservation, fire control, encroachment control, research-monitoring and capacity building, climate change adaptation and buffer zone management.