Mainstreaming traditional hunting communities of western Nepal in tiger conservation
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £346,276
WHERE Nepal
Summary
The Banke-Bardia complex holds the second largest population of endangered Royal Bengal Tiger in Nepal. Poaching and illegal trade of tiger and its body parts, hunting of prey species for meat and livelihood, and retaliatory killings are major threats to tiger conservation. The project aims to reduce the threats to tigers through nature-based livelihood support programmes to ~800 targeted households involved in hunting, capacitating frontline staff and strengthen wildlife enforcement together with increasing conservation
awareness among local communities.
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
