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| Upadhyay and Yadav exchange the signed joint resolution while Minister Deepak Bohora (middle) looks on. |
The resolutions were signed by Gopal Prasad Upadhyay, Director General, Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation on behalf of the Government of Nepal and S.P Yadav, DIG and Joint Director, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forests on behalf of the Government of India.
The resolutions were signed as an outcome of the 4th Nepal-India Consultative Meeting on Trans-boundary Biodiversity Conservation, at a function held at the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation in the capital.
The resolutions signed today stress on bilateral and regional co-operation including establishing a joint monitoring mechanism for interaction and intelligence sharing and exploring funding opportunities with special focus on the protected areas of the Terai Arc Landscape in both Nepal and India.
"It is a matter of pride that India and Nepal hold over fifty percent of the global tiger population and this gives us the responsibility to take the leadership in protecting wild tigers and showcasing to the world that together we can make a huge difference," said Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohora.
"This is a step forward towards strengthening bilateral co-operation and trans-boundary conservation. This will enable people working on the gorund to work more efficiently and help to protect the Terai Arc Landscape as a single unit between the two countries," said Gopal Prasad Upadhyay.
"India and Nepal have had an excellent working relation in the past. The formalising of this relation is another milestone towards working together for biodiversity conservation including tigers. Besides having common boundary, we are facing similar challenges of tiger onservation. Such relation is extremely important for combating illegal wildlife trade and landscape level conservation for tigers and other wild animals," said S.P Yadav.
The Consultative Meeting is a key step towards the signing of a MoU on bio-diversity conservation between Nepal and India. The Government of Nepal signed a similar MoU with the Government of China in June 2010 creating a milestone for the co-operation between the two governments for conserving biodiversity especially control in the trade of illegal wildlife parts of endangered species such as the tiger.
The meeting came as nationwide celebrations were organised in Nepal to mark World Tiger Day. nepalnews.com
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