24 th national wildlife week celebration 2076
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24th
National Wildlife Week Celebration
2076
Submitted to:
Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus,
Pokhara
Submitted by:
Wildlife Week
Celebration Committee
2076
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Acknowledgement:
We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped us making this
event a grand success.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the green groups and Institute of Forestry for
their valuable support and cooperation. We are very thankful to Department of National Park
and Wildlife Conservation – Annapurna Conservation Area (DNPWC-ACA) Liaison Office,
National Trust for Nature Conservation- Annapurna Conservation Area Project (NTNC-
ACAP), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Nepal- Hariyoban Program, Bird Conservation Nepal
(BCN), Third Pole Conservancy, Nepalese Ornithological Union (NOU) , Friends of Nature
(FON)- Nepal, Pokhara Bird Society (PBS), Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge- Pokhara, BaBa
Foundation, Division Forest Office (DFO) Kaski, Pokhara Metropolitian City, Kaski, Pokhara
Metropolitian City- Ward no: 5, Pokhara Metropolitian City- Ward no: 13, Pokhara
Metropolitian City- Ward no: 15, Forest and Environment Research Organization (FERO)-
Bhaktapur, Free Student Union – Institute of Forestry (FSU- IOF) Pokhara, Dharmasthali
Model School- Parsang, and Mr. Hemanta Dhakal for providing us financial support to
celebrate the 23rd National Wildlife Week.
We are very much appreciative to Prof. Dr. Krishna Raj Tiwari, Dean- IOF, Mr. Prem Narayan
Khanal (Campus Chief, IOF Pokhara), Mr. Rishi Baral (Conservation officer NTNC-ACAP),
Mr. Rishi Ram Dhakal (Conservation Officer- ACAP-Liaison Office) and Mr. Dayaram
Pandey (Ranger- ACAP-Liaison Office), Mrs. Sudha Dhungana (Ranger-ACAP-Liaison
Office), Mr. Shiva Devkota (ACAP- Lwang), Mr. Rajendra Gurung (Bird Conservation
Nepal), Mr. Rupendra Ghale and Mr. Surya Adhikari from WWF Hariyoban, Mr Ganga Ram
Regmi (Founder and Executive Director at Third Pole Conservancy), Mr. Hathan Chauddhary
(Nepalese Ornithological Union), Mr. Raju Acharya (Founder and Executive Director FON-
Nepal), Mr. Dilip Shrestha (BaBa Foundation), Mr. Mannshant Ghimire, Mr. Hemanta Dhakal
(Pokhara Bird Society), Mr. Bishal Aryal (President- FSU), Gajendra Shrestha (Forest and
Environment Research Organization), Mr. Kedarnath Baral (Principal- Dharmasthali Basic
School), Mr. Ramji Gautam (Zoological Department- P.N. Campus), Mr. Krishna Mani Baral,
Mr. Bhumi Prakash Chaudary Tharu (Trainer), Ms. Shristee Panthi (Trainer) and Mr. Bhuwan
Singh Bista (IOF, Pokhara).
Lastly, we are very grateful to Nepal Police for providing us the necessary security during our
street performances, the students from Bhurjung Khola and Ghachowk, staffs of IOF, Pokhara
and all the volunteer students for their tireless efforts and dedication to make this program a
success.
Photo Credits: Aananda Baral, Mukesh Shrestha, Vidyaman Thapa, Ambika Regmi, Pratyush
Dhungana, Shirish Dangi, Sangita Gautam.
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Contents:
Acknowledgement:…………………………………………………………………………..3
1. Introduction:……………………………………………………………………………..5
2. Objectives:………………………………………………………………………………..6
3. Wildlife Week Celebration District:……………………………………………………6
4. Event Promotion:………………………………………………………………………..7
5. Activities
5.1 Flash Mob and Rally:……………………………………………………………….8
5.2 Butterfly museum visit, Flash mob ,Drawing and Instant Writing Competition
5.2.1 Butterfly museum visit and Flash Mob:…………………………………..10
5.2.2 Drawing and Instant Writing Competition:………………………………11
5.3 Photography workshop and School Teaching Program
5.3.1 Photography workshop:……………………………………………………12
5.3.2 School teaching program at Bhujrung Khola:……………………………12
5.4 Butterfly Monitoring and Bat cave visit
5.4.1 Butterfly Monitoring:………………………………………………………14
5.4.2 Bat cave visit:………………………………………………………………..14
5.5 Nature Hike and School Visit
5.5.1 Nature Hike:………………………………………………………………...15
5.5.2 School Visit:…………………………………………………………………16
5.6 Sanitation, Dustbin Distribution and School Teaching Program
5.6.1 Sanitation and Dustbin Distribution:……………………………………...16
5.6.2 School teaching at Ghachowk:…………………………………………….17
5.7 Wildlife talks, Prize distribution and Closing ceremony………………………...18
6. Results:…………………………………………………………………………………..19
6.1 Demographic features of the participants:………………………………………..20
7. Internet Links of Wildlife Week- 2076:……………………………………………….21
References:……………………………………………………………………………...21
Photo Plates:…………………………………………………………………………….22
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1. Introduction and Background
Nepal is situated at the heart of the Himalayan belt and at a unique juncture of two of the world‟s most
important bio-geographic regions. Altitudinal variation over a short distance ranges from 60 m above
sea-level to 8,848 m a top Sagarmatha, the highest point on Earth. This unique setting has bestowed
Nepal with rich biodiversity, yet Nepal is also diverse in its ethnicity, culture and religion, giving it one
of the most unique social settings in the region (Jnwali et al., 2011). The country is glorified being the
home for different spectacular animals such as Rhino, Tiger Elephants, Snow leopards and many other
endangered species. It is blessed with an ample richness in ecosystems such as forests, wetlands and
grasslands which are recognized as sites of global importance (Bhuju et al, 2007). These ecosystems or
habitats support a wide variety of living beings which includes 212 species of mammals (Amin et al,
2018), 888 species of birds (BCN, 2018), 653 species of butterflies, 230 species of fish, 53 species of
amphibians, 137 species of reptiles, 6973 species of flowering plants (DNPWC, 2012). These species
integrate and interact with their habitat and form a complex amalgamation of biosphere elements. Over
the past few years Nepal has experienced enormous challenges in conserving the country‟s biodiversity,
from the mountains to the Terai. Globally significant wildlife species such as Bengal tiger, greater one-
horned rhinoceros, Asian elephant, gharial, Gangetic river dolphin and giant hornbill in Terai and snow
leopard, red panda and musk deer and many others in the mountains are under threat. Past examples
after the initiation of Community Forestry in Nepal suggests us that the active participation of the
community in conservation activities can significantly facilitate the purpose and can be the best tool to
curb the threats that wild animals face (HMGN, 2002).
To ensure the participation of local people in conservation activities, a sense of responsibility and
belongingness needs to be put into them through different methods and tools. Similarly, the next
generations of conservationists need to know and appreciate the value of wildlife and importance of
their conservation. Hence, the green groups of Institute of Forestry, Pokhara have decided to celebrate
the National wildlife week which is celebrated every year on the first week of Baisakh nationally. We
have designed a series of programs for each day of the week which will act as a catalytic role in
convincing people to enrich their understanding of wildlife conservation. This wildlife week celebration
package is thus proposed here to mark the national celebration.
Photo: Official Banner Design for 24th Wildlife Week Celebration in Pokhara.
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2. Objectives
The major objective of this week long celebration is to familiarize and sensitize the people and
all the stakeholders about the value and importance of wildlife conservation and ensure
people‟s participation in future wildlife conservation activities. The specific objectives are as
follows:
I. To conduct awareness rally, flash mobs in different parts of Pokhara city.
II. To conduct school & community teachings in different places of ACAP region as per
feasibility.
III. To aware people about the illegal hunting and trade of wildlife.
IV. To involve the local communities in environmental conservation activities.
V. To create recreational bird, butterfly and bat survey at Dovilla, Bat cave and Institute of
Forestry respectively.
VI. To sensitize the future aspiring generation of conservationists towards wildlife
conservation.
VII. To create temporary museum with the art-crafts using recyclable materials.
3. Wildlife Week Celebration District
Photo: Wildlife Week 2076 Celebration Area
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4. Event Promotion
Photos: Online news about wildlife week celebration in Pokhara (Top Left), News about our activities
performed on 1st day and future activities (Top right), Facebook group for Wildlife Week 2076 (bottom
left), Schedule of Wildlife Week (Bottom right).
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5. Activities
24th National Wildlife Week-2076 with the theme of “jGohGt' ;+/If0fsf] nflu ;xsfo”
was celebrated from Baisakh 1st to 7
th 2076 with joint efforts of Institute of Forestry (IOF)-
Pokhara Campus and Green groups of Institute of Forestry (IOF) with many other supportive
organizations.
5.1 Flash Mob and Rally
The wildlife week was formally inaugurated at the conference hall of Dean office, IOF on the
chairmanship of Mr. Milan Baral (Coordinator of Wildlife Week Celebration Committee-
2076) with the chief guest Dr. Jit Narayan Shah (Assistant Dean of IOF) and special guest
Mr. Prem Narayan Khanal (Campus chief of IOF, Pokhara) by watering the plant. Similarly,
Mr. Rishi Baral (Conservation officer, NTNC-ACAP, HQ), Mrs. Sudha Dhungana (Ranger,
ACAP liaison office) and Mr. Arun Parajuli (AFO, Dang) were the guest of the opening
ceremony. The program was conducted by Mr. Bibek Belbase and the welcome speech was
delivered by Ms. Bijaya Kafle.
The stage was beautifully decorated with the mobile wildlife museum which includes the
paintings , stone paintings, arts and crafts related to wildlife, made by giving powers to
3R(reuse, recycle, reduce) along with the wildlife printed t-shirts. Those museum specimens
played a crucial role in making the people aware about conservation through art. Another
major attraction of 24th national wildlife week was face painting of wildlife.
We completed a rally from Sabhagriha Chowk to Chipledhunga. We also had 3 flash mobs in
that day in places namely Sabhagriha Chowk, Chipledhunga, Hallan Chowk. We started the
program with flash mob in front of mid-town mall and started our rally from there. Also, dart
game was introduced during the program at Sabhagriha where two animals were painted on
the darting board and if the dart hit them, the person would be fined and the amount of fine
was to be given voluntarily. The rally was completed with another flash mob at
Chipledhunga. After that all the participants went to lakeside on the college bus where
another flash mob was performed in front of the people. A total of 160 people were present
during the rally. Professors from Prithivi Narayan Campus and senior conservation offciers
from NTNC-ACAP, ACA liaison office, Division Forest Office- Dang, WWF-Hariyoban
program, Forest Action Nepal, Lalitpur were present during the flash mob and Rally. The
flash mob and the drama were very successful to capture the attention of local audience in the
street. Many people appreciated the flash mob and said that it was very informative.
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Photos: (Top) Students performing flash mob at Hallanchowk. (Bottom), Students carrying the banner
during the Conservation Rally.
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5.2 Butterfly museum visit, Flash mob, Drawing and Instant writing competition
5.2.1 Flash mob and Butterfly museum visit
On the second day, we performed our flash mob and drama in front of P.N. Campus in the
morning. Professors from P.N. Campus and students from different faculty were observing
our program. We were able to gather huge mass of people. Similarly, professors and students
of P.N. Campus were attracted by our dart game. Also, we visited the butterfly museum of
P.N. Campus.
Photo: Student performing flash mob in front of P.N. Campus (Top Left), Professor of P.N. Campus
playing dart game (Top Right), Group photo in front of Butterfly Museum (Bottom).
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5.2.2 Drawing and Instant writing competition
In the afternoon, the celebration committee conducted Drawing and Instant writing
Competition. The main objectives behind the program were to bring out the creativity of
participants, to sensitize participants and creation viewers about the wildlife and their
importance. The Drawing competition and Instant writing Competition were conducted
with the theme „Illegal hunting and Trade of Wildlife‟. There were altogether 60
participants with 25 in drawing 35 in Instant writing competition. The theme of the
program was kept secret until the program started in order to increase the inquisitiveness
of the participants. The required materials were all provided by celebration committee.
The Instant writing was held for 15 minutes and drawing competition for 1 hour
successively.
Photo: Student engaged in instant writing and drawing competition (Top Left and Right
respectively), Students posing with their drawing (Bottom).
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5.3 Photography workshop and School teaching program
5.3.1 Photography workshop
The workshop was particularly based about Mobile photography techniques to all students
who are interested in Photography. One of our photography passionate senior Bhumi Prakash
Chaudhary Tharu (Trainer), had talked them through a presentation about all the important
stuffs related to it. Nearly 40 students are enrolled in the particular workshop. From the
feedback of many participants, we had rated the workshop as a fruitful.
Photos: Trainer talking about mobile photography (Top). Participated students in the workshop
(Middle). Trainer talking about landscape-photography (Bottom)
5.3.2 School teaching at Bhujrung Khola (Machhapuchhre High School)
The school is located in ACAP area. We had targeted mainly young school children of that
school to ensure the long term conservation outputs. We had divided our groups into two: One
for flash mob awareness and another for student teaching as well as documentary show. Flash
mob awareness includes wildlife dance and illegal wildlife trade drama around the territory of
the school. In the large classroom with almost 60 young students, through powerpoint
presentation, we had talked them about Wildlife Conservation & its importance, Illegal
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wildlife trade, Climate change and Environment pollution. To make our teaching sessions
more interesting, we had conducted quiz competition within them with sweets distribution for
the answered one. Also we had shown them two documentaries related to Endangered
Wildlife of Nepal and Illegal Wildlife Trade Punishments by law. At the end of the
program, we had distributed writing diary and ball-pen to all the participated students. As a
whole, we were so much exited to see the school student's zeal for wildlife. We are sure, they
are so much happy for us about our particular program on that day.
Photo: School teaching at Bhujrung Khola to the school students including documentary show.
Photo: Students engaged with wildlife materials (Left), Face painted of the students (Right).
Photo: Wildlife- conservation Drama (Left), Flash Mob (Right).
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5.4 Butterfly Monitoring and Bat cave visit
5.4.1 Butterfly monitoring
The program was started under the mentorship of Ms. Shristee Panthee, one of student IOF
Pokhara. She has experience in research and training in butterfly. A total of 50 participants
were present in this program which was organized inside the IOF premises. This program
aimed to develop simple identification techniques to understand the butterflies‟ movement in
the field and enhance the work experience with butterflies for students.
Photo: Resource person explaining about butterfly (Left), Group photo after the butterfly monitoring
(Right).
5.4.2 Bat cave visit
“Instrument demonstration and bat cave visit” was the program in the bat cave organized by
Bats Friends Pokhara. There were about 80 participants on the program. For instrument
demonstration, acoustic device (Echo meter Touch 2 Pro) was shown with instructions to use
the device and a short cave visit was done after the briefing about bats. This program was
focused on enhancing the knowledge about conservation of bats and their habitats.
Photo: Briefing about Bats (Left), Coordinator with executive members of Bat Friends Pokhara in front
of Bat Cave (Right).
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Photo: Briefing about Acoustic device inside Bat Cave.
5.5 Nature hike and School visit
5.5.1 Nature Hike
The program Nature Hike to Dovilla was co-ordinated by BCN, Pokhara Branch. We
were specially focused on the birds along with butterflies, trees, and landscapes. We
had Mr. Mannshant Ghimire, Mr. Bhumi Prakash Chaudhary Tharu and Ms. Shristee
Panthee as a resource person. There were altogether 98 participants so we divided the
mass into 5 groups. Same trail to Dovilla was travelled by each group in the interval of
15 minutes. Total 68 species of birds were recorded. Along with this, we had sanitation
program where all the individuals were involved. With the silence and ethics of
conservationist, we finished the Nature hike program.
Photo: Red-billed Blue Magpie (Left), Resource person Mr. Mannshant Ghimire searching for birds
(Right).
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5.5.2 School Visit
In the afternoon, we visited Dharmasthali Model School, Parsyang with the motive to aware
students about the wildlife and their conservation. We conducted drawing competition (on
the topic Wildlife Conservation) among 38 students of that school.
Photo: Students engaged in Drawing (Left), Prize distribution to the winners (Right).
5.6 Sanitation, Dustbin distribution and School teaching
5.6.1 Sanitation and dustbin distribution
The program was conducted outside the IOF premises along Tallo NayaGaun Area at the
morning time. It was done in collaboration with Shree Annapurana Upabhakta Sahakari
Sastha Ltd. With the coordination of Milan Baral and Chief Guest Captain Naresh Thapa we
started the sanitation program from the IOF gate to tallo nayagaun area tagging dustbins in
appropriate pole in different location within this trail. Together with IOF students and
committee people from the locality there were altogether 150 people. This program had it
focus on public participation in sanitation program to aware everyone about keeping the area
clean and green.
Photo: Students and local people after the sanitation (Left), Dustbin tagging (Right).
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5.6.2 School teaching at Ghachowk
Our program was divided into three sessions. In the first session, we visited Jatayau Vulture
Restaurant where 8 species of vulture are found. The resource person available there gave us
information about the status of vulture and vulture restaurant. In the second session, we
started school teaching at Suklagandaki secondary school where students from different
schools were invited. In the large classroom with almost 50 young students, through
powerpoint presentation, we had talked them about Wildlife Conservation & its
importance, Status and importance of Vulture, Human-wildlife Conflict and
Ecotourism in Ghachowk. To make our teaching sessions more interesting, we had
conducted quiz competition within them with sweets distribution for the answered one. Also
we had shown them two documentaries related to Endangered Wildlife of Nepal and
Illegal Wildlife Trade Punishments by law. At the end of the program, we had distributed
writing diary and ball-pen to all the participated students. As a whole, we were so much
exited to see the school student's zeal for wildlife. In the third session, we performed flash
mob and drama where the students from different schools and local people were observing.
Photo: Group photo after the school teaching (Top), Presenting on Importance of Vulture and
Ecotourism in Ghachowk (Bottom).
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5.7 Wildlife talk, Prize distribution and Closing ceremony
On the 7th
day we had formal closing ceremony and wildlife talk in NTNC-ACAP office.
The formal inauguration of the closing ceremony was done by the Chief guest Krishna Raj
Tiwari (Dean of IOF, TU), Special guest Prem Narayan Khanal (Campus Chief,
IOF,Pokhara), Guests: Hemanta Dhakal ( Secretary,PBS), and coordinator Milan Baral by
watering a small plant. During the program, wildlife talk was organized, where Mr.
Hemanta Dhakal and Ms. Shristee Panthee presented on „Biodiversity of birds at Pokhara
valley‟ and „Lepidoptera‟ respectively. And then, the prizes were distributed to the winners
of drawing & instant writing competition. Similarly, the certificate of appreciation was
provided to all the working committee members and the participants of the program. The
program was formally closed by the coordinator after honoring Token of Love to our guests
and supporters.
Photo: Formal inauguration by watering plant (Left), Resource person giving presentation on
Biodiversity of birds at Pokhara valley (Right).
Photo: Resource person presenting on Lepidoptera (Left), Coordinator providing Token of Love to
Chief Guest (Right).
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Photo: Prize distribution of Instant writing and Drawing competition.
6. Results
The week long wildlife week program secured the participation of a total of 720 people from
different institutions. We started the program with few objectives (see No. 2) for which
programs were organized accordingly. They are explained as follow:
Objectives Results
I. 160 people had participated in the rally with officials from institutions
like DNPWC, NTNC-ACAP, DFO-Dang, WWF Nepal, PN campus,
Forest Action- Lalitpur, and Institute of Forestry. We were able to gather
a huge crowd in all 6 of the flash mobs performed during the week. The
face painted with animals attracted the public towards wildlife and their
conservation.
II. A total of 60 people of Bhurjung Khola area of ACA were taught about
the topics mentioned above (see section 5.3.2). Also, 50 students of
Ghachowk were taught about the topics mentioned above (see section
5.6.2). The target groups of people were the students of secondary level.
III. After every flash mob, there was a drama with the theme of „Illegal
hunting and trade of wildlife species‟. The drama disseminates the
knowledge about role of the Anti-Poaching Unit, community people and
security system towards wildlife conservation. Also, the drawing
competition with the theme „Illegal hunting and trade of wildlife‟ aware
students of different institutions about the wildlife conservation.
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IV. The sanitation and dustbin distribution program was done in
collaboration with Shree Annapurana Upabhakta Sahakari Sastha Ltd.
where we shared information about the importance of environment to
human and the role of sanitation on the wildlife conservation. A total of
60 community people were present in the program.
V. We completed nature hike at Dovilla side where 98 students (5 groups)
did Bird Watching using McKinnon‟s Bird Survey Method. Also, we
conducted Butterfly monitoring and Bat cave visit with the presence of
50 and 80 students respectively, where they were trained about the
behavior of butterfly and the bats respectively.
VI. A set of program were organized with a special focus towards the
students of IOF. Drawing and instant writing competitions were
organized to enhance their knowledge and creativity towards wildlife
conservation. Photography workshop helped them to meet their passion
towards wildlife conservation. Wildlife talks helped them to understand
about the biodiversity of birds in Pokhara valley and Lepidoptera.
VII. The temporary mobile museum created during wildlife week helped to
draw attention of professors, conservation officers, students and other
general people towards the wildlife conservation.
Table 1: Results that met the Program‟s Objectives.
6.1 Demographic feature of Participants
Figure 1: Sex ratio of Participants
Sex Ratio of Participants
Female
Male
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7. Internet Links of Wildlife Week- 2076
7.1 Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gk25xZVdYo&pbjreload=10
7.2 Online News in Nepali:
https://www.eadarsha.com/nep/epaper/%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A4-
%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%AC-%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AB
http://annapurnapost.com/news/125137
8. References
Amin, R., H.S.Baral, B.R. Lamichane, L.P. Poudyal, S.Lee, S.R. Jnawali, K.P.
Acharya, G.P. Upadhyaya, M.B. Pandey, R. Shrestha, D. Joshi, J. Griffiths, A.P.
Khatiwada and N Subedi (2018). The status of Nepal‟s mammals. Journal of Threatened
Taxa 10(3): 11361-11378
Bhuju, U.R., Shakya, P.R., Basnet, T.B. and Shrestha, S. 2007. Nepal Biodiversity
Resource Book. Kathmandu: ICIMOD and MOEST/GON.
DNPWC (2072). Annual Report 72/73. Department of National Parks and Wildlife
Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal.
HMGN/MFSC. 2002. Nepal Biodiversity Strategy. Ministry of Forest and Soil
Conservation, Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Jnawali, S.R., Baral, H.S., Lee, S., Acharya, K.P., Upadhyay, G.P., Pandey, M.,
Shrestha, R., Joshi, D., Laminchhane, B.R., Griiths, J., Khatiwada, A. P., Subedi, N.,
and Amin, R. (compilers) (2011) The Status of Nepal Mammals: The National Red List
Series, Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Kathmandu, Nepal.
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