Cooperating partners

In large-scale projects, good cooperation between different organizations is one of the keys to success. Field Officer Purna Kunwar (left) and Program Officer Shubash Lohani (right), both of WWF Nepal Program, share views with Shiva Raj Batta, Chief Warden of Royal Chitwan National Park, working for the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation.
© WWF-Canon / Helena Telkanranta

Promoting conservation in the office and in the field

TAL is a large-scale project, carried out by several organizations and government agencies, and being implied in an area where 6.7 million people live. The successes that have been achieved would not have been possible without the cooperation of various stakeholders and local communities.

Some of the work deals with conserving mountain areas, such as Sagarmatha National Park and Annapurna Conservation Area, protecting a part of the surroundings of the famous mountains Sagarmatha (which in the West is known as Mount Everest) and Annapurna, and protecting endangered species of the mountains, such as the snow leopard.

Others at the office spread environment awareness, or work for habitats entirely different from the mountains that this kingdom is famous for.

The TAL project is a cooperation of several important partners, like the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and the Department of Forest, both of the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation of Government of Nepal.

One of the participating organizations is the WWF Nepal. Below you will meet some of its staff. These are only a few of WWF Nepal staff members working to protect the Terai area; many others are doing equally valuable work.