Kangchenjunga Landscape Initiative

A decadal journey of transboundary conservation and development initiatives: Lessons learnt from the Hindu Kush Himalaya

ICIMOD has been proactively working on biodiversity conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region for the last three decades. The region merits conservation interventions because it houses four of 36 Global Biodiversity Hotspots, two of its member countries (China and India) are Megadiverse Countries, and it hosts numerous Global 200 ecoregions.

Consultative workshop on tourism planning for Namkha Rural Municipality

Namkha Rural Municipality is well placed to develop as a national, regional, and global hub for sustainable heritage and ecotourism. A community-centric approach led and managed by local women and men (and youth in particular) is necessary for this. Accordingly, Namkha Rural Municipality with support from ICIMOD is organizing a one-day consultation workshop on its tourism planning (2020–2024) at the ICIMOD headquarters in Kathmandu.

Fifth Asian Rural Tourism Festival

In collaboration with the Government of Nepal and other stakeholders, ICIMOD has been proactively supporting platforms for cross learning and facilitation of regional tourism in the KL through the Asian Rural Tourism Festival since 2018. The festival is expected to promote rural tourism in the KL, covering the regional dimension through the promotion of culture, tradition, and dialogue.

SECURE Himalaya Meeting

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been identified as a collaborating partner for technical inputs in the project planning process. An inception meeting for the Sikkim Chapter has been planned for 21 January 2019 in Gangtok, during which ICIMOD will contribute to defining the role and deliverables anticipated for the project.

Homestay Steering and Management Training and Cultural Festival

The KLCDI-India programme is focusing on the livelihood diversification and economic development of marginalized communities, specifically in the three identified pilot sites. All of these sites display high potential for rural tourism, particularly community-based tourism under which benefits are equitably shared.

Reconciling human-wildlife interface in Kangchenjunga Landscape: A Regional Dialogue for Action

The Kangchenjunga Landscape is a transboundary landscape where three countries – Bhutan, India and Nepal – are working together through a Regional Cooperation Framework to ensure the social and economic well-being of local communities while maintaining ecological and cultural integrity.

International Consultative Workshop Bridging Boundaries: Strengthening Regional Cooperation Across Transboundary River Basins and Landscapes in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH Transboundary Cooperation – 2018)

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is a region of rich cultural, aesthetic, biological, and geo-hydrological value. Some of the tallest peaks in the world are found here. Researchers and scientists have measured around 60,000 km2 of glaciers and 760,000 km2 of snow cover in the HKH, making it a massive store of freshwater.

2018 GBIF Asia Regional Nodes Meeting

The main objective of the meeting is to seek feedback and input from GBIF node managers from Asia, as well as from invited observers, in order to facilitate effective planning and subsequent implementation of biodiversity data publishing and use in Asia. The meeting is supported by funds allocated to regional nodes meetings under the 2018 GBIF Work Programme, with co-funding from ICIMOD.

Haa Summer Festival, Bhutan

The Yak Festival organized in Panchthar of KLCDI Nepal in April 2018 brought more than 1,000 people from Nepal and India together in Sandakphu. The event highlighted the significance of yak and the ecosystem services they provide and built cooperation at the local level among stakeholders for yak conservation and development. The Haa Summer Festival in Bhutan will achieve similar results.

Shared Natural and Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Tourism in the Kangchenjunga Transboundary Landscape

The Kangchenjunga Landscape (KL), one of the six transboundary landscapes identified by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and its partners in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), is shared by Bhutan, India, and Nepal. Tourism is an important economic sector in the three countries.

Sensitivity of Treeline in Response to Climate Change

The climate change phenomemnon is the greatest threats to the arctic and alpine zones. High-altitudes zones of the Himalayas are particularly susceptible to climate variability and have shown increase in warming, and perhaps sooner, than the rest of the globe. Among the global mountains regions, the Himalaya is warming almost 2-5 times higher than the global average.

Incentivizing Mountain Communities for Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), a global asset, is rich in cultural and biological diversity, and natural resources. It is also home to inaccessible, remote, and fragile regions where local populations live in poverty. Managing ecosystems in the region is challenging as local livelihoods depend heavily on natural ecosystems

Regional Orientation on Long Term Environmental and Socio-Ecological Monitoring

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region (HKH) is rich in both biodiversity, as well as culture, and provides a wide range of ecosystems services of local, national, regional and global significance. However, the region faces socio-economic, environmental and ecological challenges through various drivers of changes, including climate change.

ICIMOD in IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016

Created in 1948, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), an international organisation dedicated to finding ‘pragmatic solutions to the most pressing environment and development challenges’.

Regional Orientation Training on Data Compilation and Management

The Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH) is endowed with unlimited information and knowledge which can be employed for conservation and development in and beyond the region. This information is created by processing and analysing data which can be re-used and re-analysed to produce key to producing accurate and meaningful information for collaboration and scholarly impact.

Technical Consultative Meeting on Regional Programme Implementation Plan (2016 – 2020)

The Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KLCDI) is one of ICIMOD’s six transboundary landscapes initiatives identified in the Hindu Kush Himalayas. The initiative was formally started in August 2012 in the First Regional Meeting in Gangtok, India, by representatives from participating countries...

Third Regional Strategic Consultative Meeting on the Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative

Regional Technical Meeting on ‘Conservation and Development Strategy’ and ‘Regional Cooperation Framework’ for Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative

Regional Workshop on KLCDI to Prepare Conservation and Development Strategies

Exposure Visit to Kangchenjunga Landscape Areas of Bhutan, India and Nepal

Second Regional Consultation Workshop on Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative