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Community Base National Brown Bear Conservation Action Plan

20-24 December, 2009, Pokhara, Nepal

Goal

The main goal of the workshop is to prepare National Brown Bear conservation Action plan for ensuring conservation of Brown bear in Natural habitat. Build the capacity of the local people for monitoring of brown bears, Participants will know the techniques for brown bear monitoring, present status and share their experience in interaction floors which will be incorporate in action plan. BRTF is working for Brown bear research in Nepal since last years.

Objectives

1. To prepare Community base National Brown bear Conservation Action Plan.
2. To build up capacity of the local people, students, political leader (future policy makers), on Brown bear monitoring and conservation techniques and practice.
3. To make gathering of all concern Government, Local people, Students, Scientists/Biologist, Politician, policy makers and concern INGO/NGO in one plat form to make commitment to conserve brown bear in natural habitat.
4. To teach local level participants about the Bears important in ecosystem, status, conservation education and communication methods so that they would teach others in their own community.
5. To share experience among the participants.
6. To build up alliance for bears conservation.

Programme

Day one: Introduction of Bears, Historical distribution, status, distribution and status in Nepal, Participatory bears distribution map preparation in Nepal.

Conflict between bears and human, Conflict minimization techniques

Techniques for Brown bear monitoring in natural habitat, Experience sharing from among the participants on Bears/Brown bears.

Day two: Listing of Local available flora and fauna found on Brown bears habitat.

Conservation education for conservation of Brown bears and its ecosystem, Fund raising techniques for conservation of Brown bears. Discussion of Community Base conservation action plan, Prepare framework for Conservation Action plan

Day three: Group work for Conservation Action plan preparation

Team divides to work on it economic, biologist, student, local people, policy maker, politician, habitat management,

Day Four: Presentation of group works, comments and suggestion on its,

Give final version, Prepared draft Conservation Action Plan

(Lunch break: 12:30 PM and times tea/coffee break)

Draft conservation action plan will be sent again for Government and concern authorities for final comments and suggestion.

After incorporation their comments and suggestions, final version of conservation action plan will be published and disseminations.

Venue and date

Annapurna Conservation Area Training Hall, ACAP, Pokhara, Nepal

Date: From (21 to 24) December, 2009

Language of Workshop: 80% Nepali ( this is community base action plan preparation workshop so most of the participants will come from field) / 20% English

Intended output of Workshop

- Community Base Brown Bear Conservation action plan prepared

- Capacity building of 60 community people for annual monitoring of Brown bear in natural habitat.

- Series of workshop in village level for collecting their views and values for final draft of Conservation action plan

- Raise conservation education level on participants and local people

- Handover final Action plan to concern authorities for implementation of action plan in ground level.

- Dissemination of status of Brown bears in India and Nepal by bear’s scientists and bear researchers.

Expected attendances, in particular whether the event is part of some

Larger meeting

60 participants ( 40 local people, 5 students, 5 Biologist/scintists, and 5 disadvantaged people, 5 Government representative ).

Food and Accommodation Fee

$100 National participants

$20 Students

$200 International participants

Free for local and target invited participants.

Organizing community

Chair - Sanat Kumar Dhungel, PhD – BRTF Nepal

Member- Prof. Dr. I.C Dutta Tribhuvan University (TU), Institute of Forestry (IOF), Pokhara

Member- Associate Prof. Raj Kumar Koirala– Assistant Campus Chief TU/IOF Pokhara

Member- Narendra Lama– ACAP

Member- Professor Dr. A.K Das– TU/IOF Nepal

Member- CM Gautam PhD-BRTF Nepal

Member- Bhupendra Yadav- Bear Expert, Nepal

Member– Khadananda Poudel– BRTF Nepal

Member- Kanti Shree Sen– BRTF Nepal

Member–Til Bahadur Chhetri- BRTF Nepal

Member Secretary- Achyut Aryal– BRTF Nepal

Contact us: savefauna@yahoo.com / info@brtf.org.np