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A Buffer Zone for Biodiversity Conservation: Viability of the Concept in Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Sanjay K. Nepal  and
Karl E. Weber
Sanjay K. Nepal
Affiliation:
Research Specialist, Human Settlements Development Program
Karl E. Weber
Affiliation:
Professor and Dean, School of Environment, Resources & Development, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), GPO Box 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand.
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A buffer zone for RCNP is considered an effective means to mitigate and contain the Park–local people conflict. Its creation adjacent to the National Park will enable local people to engage in multiple-use activities that will provide benefits not only to themselves but protect the Park's integrity as well. Except for the much-degraded Barandabar Forest, the other small parcels of forest that exist around the Royal Chitwan National Park are highly inadequate to provide additional wildlife protection and environmental conservation. RCNP does not have any area that, to date, is exclusively designated as a buffer zone. The Barandabar Forest is still envisaged as an additional protection to the Park, although continual grazing, lopping of branches and twigs from trees, and timber extraction, by the local people, have extensively diminished its biological values.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Winter 1994 , pp. 333 - 341
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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