Integrating local government and community conservation capacity for snow leopards
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Capability & Capacity
VALUE £170,660
WHERE Nepal
Summary
Scaling-up conservation-led actions over shared landscapes and local government boundaries by building upon successes in one mid-western Nepal Rural Municipality and replicating locally-designed enterprises to adjacent Municipalities through multi-stakeholder collaboration: (1) create common cooperative capacities for consolidated marketing of snow leopard biodiversity-linked enterprises; (2) promote funding for environmentally suitable initiatives from rural municipality partner resources; and (3) create a sub-national
livestock owner cooperative to implement peer-to-peer learning and ations for snow leopard conservation and livestock compensation across sub-national jurisdictions.
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