National Parks of Nepal | Wildlife Reserve and Conservation Areas
National Parks
- Parsa National Park
- Shukla Phanta National Park
- Banke National Park
- Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park
- Makalu Barun National Park
- Khaptad National Park
- Shey-Phoksundo National Park
- Bardiya National Park
- Rara National Park
- Langtang National Park
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Chitwan National Park
Wildlife Reserve
Hunting Reserve
Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve is the only hunting reserve in Nepal established in 2044 BS with an aim of preserving a representative high altitude ecosystem in west Nepal and allow sports hunting of blue sheep and other game animals.
Conservation Areas
- Krishnasaar Conservation Area
- Api Nanpa Conservation Area
- Gaurishankar Conservation Area
- Manaslu Conservation Area
- Kanchanjunga Conservation Area
- Annapurna Conservation Area
Hydroelectricity in Nepal | Hydropower Projects in Nepal
Tourism & Its Importance in Nepal
Tourism in Nepal
Importance of tourism in Nepal
The importance of tourism comes to light since it brings in lots of advantages with it to any host country. It promotes the country's name around the globe. It can be a great source of income for a country. Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, and many other countries today are counted as flourished nations and the main reason behind this is the development of the tourism industry. Nepal each year gets a lot of visits and is in the path of tourism development by pre-planning events and activities to allure tourists. Below are a few points for the importance of tourism in Nepal.
- Economic growth: For a developing country like Nepal, the tourism industry can be regarded as bliss as it is a source of foreign exchange and royalty earnings. Tourism succors other industries like hotels, restaurants, handicrafts, and many more to run in an efficient way. Nepal Rastra Bank report shows total foreign currency exchange (less return) for 2018 stood at NRs. 69,750,584 thousand, (Around 617,263 thousand US$).
- Employment opportunities: Employment opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sectors can be created either directly or indirectly. Direct Employment opportunities are the total number of job opportunities supported directly by travel and tourism for instance guides, employment by hotels, restaurants, rural inns, and guest houses, museums, travel agencies, tourism information offices, protected areas such as national parks, palaces, religious sites, monuments, aircraft, photography, sightseeing tours, farmhouses, local transportation. Tourism and hospitality also support indirect employment in activities like restaurant suppliers, construction companies that build and maintain tourist facilities, as well as necessary infrastructure, various handicrafts producers, marketing agencies, accounting services.
- Cultural exchange: Tourists from various countries with different cultural backgrounds visit Nepal. In addition to that, Nepal is a home of people with unlike cultural frameworks from being multilingual to multiregional. Hence people can know each other more and learn about their language, art, skill, food, etc.
- Publicity of nation: Nepal is a small country and has not made a remarkable name in the world scenario. Tourism helps to publicize the country around the world so that more people know Nepal and its authentic beauty. It helps to publicize Nepalese art, skills, tradition, culture, and hospitality to the world.
Ecotourism in Nepal
Ecotourism is defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education” (TIES, 2015). It is about uniting conservation, communities, and sustainable travel. In the sixth plan (1980-1985 AD), emphasis was given to the promotion of eco-tourism in Nepal by the government. Since then ecotourism has been flourishing and attracting tourists towards Nepal for wildlife viewing, wilderness camping, trekking, hiking vacations, white water rafting, and many more activities. Along with the conservation of floras and faunas, national parks, conservation areas, wildlife reserves, and hunting reserves have been serving as a prime destination for tourists to enjoy jungle safari and watching wildlife closely. This is an example of ecotourism in Nepal. Moreover, except the main areas of Nepal that are easily accessible by the tourists like Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, Chitwan, Pokhara, Lumbini, etc, rustic areas with abundant possibilities aiding to the attraction of tourists like Manang, Mustang, Dolakha, etc are being promoted for tourism.
Public Private Partnership | PPP in Nepal
Development Issues & Challenges of Economic Development in Nepal
Watershed & Watershed Delineation | Calculating Catchment Area
What is Watershed & Watershed Delineation?
Why Watershed Delineation is required?
How to delineate watershed?
- Topo Map Method
- Google Earth Pro Method
- GIS Method
- Mark the outlet point in the topo map
- Starting from the outlet point, draw lines perpendicular to the contours in such a way that the line passes through the ridges
- Following the procedure, connect all the possible extreme points whose discharge converges into the outlet & finally, end at the outlet point.
- After demarcation of the catchment boundary in the topo map, trace the delineated area in transparent graph paper. Count the number of squares in the graph paper that the catchment has covered & keeping in mind of map scale, determine the value of the catchment area.