Achyut Aryal

Ecology and Conservation of Brown Bear “Ursus Arctos” in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

Digging by Brown Bear for Himalayan Marmot in MCA (photo by Achyut Aryal).

Researcher showing brown bear scats.

LocationCountryCategoriesDate
Mustang District NepalAsia, Mammals27 Feb 2009

Himalayan Brown Bear “Ursus arctos” is placed in Appendix I of CITES, its IUCN Red list status is "Vulnerable" (IUCN, 2006) and government of Nepal listed as endangered. There are no study on this specie in Nepal, therefore, The project will have studied on ecology of Brown bear “Ursus arctos”- status, distribution, habitat preference, diet condition, human-bear conflict and launch the community base Brown bear conservation awareness activities. Project will strength the local people capacity for future monitoring of its population and form conservation network to control poaching and illegal transport of wildlife body parts. Finally project will have developed National Brown Bear conservation action plan for Nepal.

Read about Achyut's previous RSG projects at http://www.ruffordsmallgrants.org/rsg/projects/achyut_aryal_0 or for more information contact savefauna@yahoo.com or go to www.brtf.org.np

Project Update: July 2009

First field work has recently been completed. A brown bear habitat survey was carried out in a different area of the Upper Mustang region of Nepal.

A Conservation education programme was also conducted in different schools in the study area. We will go on next field trip in December 2009 and we will also going to organize a National Level Brown Bear Conservation Action Plan from December 20th - 24th 2009.

Project Update: November 2009

The project has going on well. We are going to organize National Level Workshop for preparing Brown bear conservation action plan in Nepal. The plan will be prepared through the local stakeholder, scientist and concern stakeholder of the nation. Detail about the workshop has given in our website please visit: http://www.brtf.org.np/information/news/47

Final Report

Read about the activities undertaken and findings of this project in the final reports below.

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Final Report.doc699 KB
Detailed Final Report.doc2.01 MB

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