Protected Area Management Strategy 2022-2030.

This Protected Area Management Strategy 2022-2030 is a sectoral strategic plan aiming to create climate resilient ecosystems and self-sustaining protected area management in Nepal by 2030.
Based on the guiding principles of equity, participation, transparency, accountability, and adaptive management, the Goal is set as: To ensure the effective management of Nepal's protected areas through the implementation of a comprehensive and integrated management system. The Strategy focuses on six thematic areas, including biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, climate change adaptation, sustainable tourism, community-based conservation, and institutional strengthening. The Strategy outlines specific strategies for each thematic area, such as promoting sustainable livelihoods for local communities, enhancing ecosystem resilience, and improving governance and management systems. The Strategy further identifies a range of strategic actions to achieve its goals, including strengthening law enforcement, promoting research and monitoring, enhancing public awareness and education, collect and update information on wild flora and fauna, manage small and isolated wildlife species through a meta-population approach, improve and expand habitats including grasslands, wetlands, and rangelands, assess the status of small mammals and herpetofauna, and prepare conservation action plans, establish wildlife rescue centers, and ex-situ conservation facilities and strengthen the capacity of human resources, develop and implement invasive alien species control action plan, establish hydro-meteorological stations to monitor impacts of climate-induced risks, develop an early warning system in each protected area, prepare disaster risk reduction plan, and create climate refugia, etc.