"To promote, conserve and manage nature in all its diversity balancing human needs with the environment on a sustainable basis for posterity - ensuring maximum community participation with due cognizance of the linkages between economics, environment and ethics through a process in which people are both the principal actors and beneficiaries."
BCC (Biodiversity Conservation Center)
Introduction
Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC), formerly known as Nepal Conservation Research and Training Center (NCRTC) was established in 1989, on the fringes of the Royal Chitwan National Park at Sauraha to assist the biological research and monitoring functions of the Trust. BCC is one of the flagship programs of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation.
The main objective of BCC is to aid in conservation and management of the natural resources with the active participation of the stakeholders of the community. Center is involved in wildlife research and monitoring together with developing trained manpower for the natural resource management sector. Since, most of the community residents rely on the forest for income and energy, BCC has been working towards reducing the community's dependency on natural resources by providing alternative source of energy and providing various training on income generating activities and promoting local guardianship towards endangered species and their habitats. This has helped in minimizing the existing conflicts between the park and the local people. BCC has also been developed as a center for providing various types of training to enhance the managerial capacity of staff involved in protected area management of the country.
