Human wildlife conflict and impacts on livelihood: A study in community forestry system in mid-hills of Nepal

K Baral, HP Sharma, R Kunwar, C Morley, A Aryal… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Human wildlife conflict (HWC) impacts the livelihood of many rural communities worldwide.
This study investigated the impact of HWC on people living near community forests (CF) in …

Biodiversity conservation and management in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: are transboundary landscapes a promising solution?

RK Kotru, B Shakya, S Joshi, J Gurung, G Ali… - Mountain Research and …, 2020 - BioOne
Maintaining the health of biodiversity and ecosystem services is becoming an increasingly
important concern for the global community. The biodiversity-rich Hindu Kush Himalayan …

Drivers and mechanisms of forest change in the Himalayas

A Verma, D Schmidt-Vogt, JDT De Alban… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mountains are critical ecosystems that have a strong influence far beyond their topographic
boundaries. More than 50 million people inhabit the Himalayas, and more than one billion …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic impacts on phytosociological features and soil microbial health of Colchicum luteum L. an endangered medicinal plant of North Western …

RA Rather, H Bano, SA Padder, K Perveen… - Saudi Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Colchicum luteum is currently a rare and threatened medicinal plant species in the Kashmir
Himalaya. Due to the subsequent increase in anthropogenic pressure on medicinal plant …

Characterization and management of human-wildlife conflicts in mid-hills outside protected areas of Gandaki province, Nepal

K Baral, HP Sharma, B Rimal, K Thapa-Magar… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
With the intent to better management human wildlife conflict (HWC) and wildlife conservation
in mid-hills outside protected areas of Gandaki province, Nepal, we analyzed the patterns …

Factors that influence the plant use knowledge in the middle mountains of Nepal

D Kutal, RM Kunwar, K Baral, P Sapkota, HP Sharma… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
An account of total of 58 plant species including 57 genera and 43 families was reported as
useful in ethnomedicine from semi-structured questionnaire survey to the 76 participants of …

Comparing global and local land cover maps for ecosystem management in the Himalayas

K Aryal, A Apan, T Maraseni - Remote Sensing Applications: Society and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a breakthrough in geographical data science, two high-resolution (10m) global land
cover products were published by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and …

Wild plants used by the Lhoba people in Douyu Village, characterized by high mountains and valleys, in southeastern Tibet, China

WY Chen, T Yang, J Yang, ZC Qiu, XY Ding… - Journal of Ethnobiology …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Douyu Village, inhabited by the Lhoba people, is situated within the
Eastern Himalayas, in southeastern Tibet, China. The village is located among high …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular epiphyte diversity and host tree architecture in two forest management types in the Himalaya

YP Adhikari, S Hoffmann, RM Kunwar… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Epiphytes are one of the most diversified plant life forms, whose species richness peaks in
the tropics and subtropics. Here we examined vertical distribution metrics (ie, number of …

Conserving the Sacred: Socially Innovative Efforts in the Loita Enaimina Enkiyio Forest in Kenya

J Nyagwalla Otieno, V Bellotto, LS Esho… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Indigenous Communities residing inside or next to autochthonal forests conserved them
through governance frameworks that invoked traditional sacral law and reverence for their …