"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."
BCP (Bardia Conservation Program)
Introduction
The Royal Bardia National Park (RBDP) is located 400 km west of Kathmandu Valley. Although, KMTNC was involved in a number of conservation activities in Bardia since the translocation of rhinos in 1986, the Bardia Conservation Program (BCP) was launched in 1994 as a regular project. BCP has been focusing its efforts on community plantation, school support, health care, women development, skill enhancement and crop depredation control program. Working in the buffer zone area of RBNP to minimize crop damage by wildlife, for the first time in the country, BCP is experiencing with electric fencing technology in the areas of high impact.
With technical support from the Agriculture University of Norway and in close association with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, BCP is also developing wildlife research projects in RBNP, which has started from December 1997. The main objective of this research project is to conduct scientific research on prey and predators in RBNP. The Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD) has been the major donor for BCP.
The trust has also undertaken the implementation of five components of the Bardia Integrated Conservation Project (BICP) in 1996 with funding support of the Government of Netherlands through the World Wildlife Fund - Nepal Program. The five components include sustainable agriculture and forestry, animal husbandry and livestock management, natural forest regeneration, alternative income generation schemes and nature-based tourism. BICP has complemented BCP objectives in many
