Conservation strategy for brown bear and its habitat in Nepal

Diversity

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-317

  Aryal, Achyut ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^a   Sathyakumar, Sambandam ^b   Poudel, Buddi Sagar ^c   Ji, Weihong ^a   Kunwar, Kamal Jung ^c   Kok, Jose ^d   Kohshima, Shiro ^e   Brunton, Dianne ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Wildlife Institute of India   (India)

^c Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation   (Nepal)

^d Alertis Fund for bear and Nature Conservation   (Netherlands)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annapurna; Blue sheep; Brown bear; Habitat overlap; Livestock; Nepal

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LIVESTOCK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION SIZE; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

HIMALAYAS;

EID: 84874913204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14242818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/d4030301     Document Type: Article

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