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Terai
Arc Landscape |
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Terai Arc Landscape (TAL) is a long-term
vision – 50 years and encompasses an area of 49,500
sq.km from Bagmati River in Nepal to Yamuna River in India.
It is a biologically diverse habitat with 86 spp of mammals,
550 spp birds, 47 species of herpetofauna, 126 spp of fish
and over 2100 spp flowering plants. In Nepal TAL extends from
Bagmati river in the east to Mahakali river in the west and
cover 14 districts and includes over 75% of the remaining
lowland forests of the Terai and foothills of the Churia.
TAL is not only a critical habitat for biodiversity, it is
a home for 6.5 million people who dependent on its resources
for their livelihood. TAL includes 11 PAs - 4 in Nepal: Parsa
Wildlife Reserve, Chitwan National Park, Bardia National Park,
Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve and 7 protected areas in India.
Focus in the critical corridors like Basanta, and Khata .
Three bottlenecks are identified in Nepal: Mahadevpuri, Lamahi,
Dovan. Major activities undertaken include: forest restoration,
maintain high biological diversity, ensure the continued provision
of key ecological services, facilitate gene flow dispersal
between wild population, and livelihoods improvement. These
activities are incorporated under five thematic areas- Sustainable
forest management, species and ecosystem conservation, sustainable
livelihoods, conservation education and coordination and monitoring.
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