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Amphibia of Nepal
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Birds of Nepal
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Annapurna Conservation Area
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Bardia National Park
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Chitwan National Park
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Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve
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Kanchenjunga Conservation Area
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Khaptad National Park
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Koshi Tappu Widlife Reserve
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Langtang National Park
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Makalu Barun National Park
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Manaslu Conservation Area
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Parsa Wildlife Reserve
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Rara National Park
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Sagarmatha National Park
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Shey Phuksundo National Park
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Shivapuri National Park
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Suklaphanta Widlife Reserve
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Highlights
Pay Farmers First to Save Tigers
Tiger Sangay, a faculty at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Environment and Conservation and the past coordinator of the Bhutan's Tiger Conservation Program for over twelve years (1996 – 2008), gave a seminar entitled “Tigers, People and Climate Change in the Bhutan Himalaya” at Conservation Chautari. According to Tiger Sangay, Bhutan has 70-80 breeding tigers. There has been no change in forest cover (29,420 km2) where tigers occur in several areas.
To save the tigers, Bhutan has: 1) Tiger Action Plan; and 2) Tiger Conservation Fund. Three thematic areas are chosen: Tiger as flagship species, Tiger habitat management and Human-tiger conflict. The Tiger Conservation Fund compensates farmers whose cattle were killed by tigers. Between 2004 – 2005, Bhutan compensated farmers with 2.9 million Ngultrums (nearly US$ 63,000). He estimates that the money was well spent to secure 47,863 kg of cattle and data from corrected weight suggest that the compensation scheme have supported 12 adult tigers to survive every year. Therefore, compensation and tiger conservation are proven compatible.
Considering adaptive strategy on climate change to protect tigers, all 10 protected areas are connected with 3,665 km2 of altitudinal corridors. However, Bhutan’s PAs and biological corridors (Total area: 19,662 km2) are influenced by over 8,000 households. Therefore, impact of climate change on farmer’s activities in and around tiger habitats, need a greater attention than others, to save tigers in the wild.
