Successful Completion of two-day National-level Workshop on Rights Based Conservation in Nepal from 23-24 December

 

The completion of the two-day National Level Workshop on Rights Based Conservation in Nepal marks a historical achievement of Indigenous Peoples, Local communities, Women, Madheshi, Dalits, persons with disabilities, and other marginalized communities in Nepal for coming up with the joint common position paper over the legal provision of national park, especially on the national park and wildlife conservation regulation and other relevant documents and hand over to the Ministry of Forest and Environment as well as concerned department: Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) led by NEFIN, FECOFUN, CIPRED, NIWF, Hemawanti, DNF and others with 113 participants representing 25 organizations across the country in Kathmandu today.

The 2nd-day program commenced with Dr. Pasang Sherpa, Chairperson of CIPRED as the chair of the event in the presence of Chief guest, Hon. Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar, the Chairperson of Indigenous Nationalities Commission, Hon. Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary, Chairperson of Tharu Commission; Dr. Deepak Kumar Kharal, Secretary of Ministry of Forest and Environment; Dr. Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Director General of DNPWC; Hon. Bharati Pathak, Parliament Member of Bagmati Province; Hon. Rajkumar Lekhy, Parliament Member of Madhesh Province; Mr. Gelje Sherpa; Chairperson of NEFIN; Ms. Nimi Sherpa, Chairperson of NIWF; Ms. Nirmala Shrestha, Gen. Secretary of HEMAWANTI; and Mr. J.B Bishwakarma, National President of DNF.

CIPRED expresses heartfelt gratitude to all the guests, presenters, and participants for their presence and invaluable contribution to the workshop and supporters.

 

 

Glimpses of the workshop:

Dr Pasang Dolma Sherpa, ED of CIPRED, moderating the inaugural session

 

Dr Pasang Sherpa, Chairperson of CIPRED

 

Hon. Minister Dr Birendra Prasad Mahato, MoFE

 

Dr Sindhu Prasad Dhungana, Director General of DNPWC

 

Hon Ram Bahadur Thapa Magar, Chairperson, Indigenous Nationalities Commission

 

Hon. Bishnu Kumar Chaudhary, Chairperson, Tharu Commission

 

Dr Deepak Kumar Kharal, Secretary, MoFE

 

Hon. Rajkumar Lekhy, Parliament Member, Madhesh Province

 

Hon. Bharati Pathak, Parliament Member, Bagmati Province

 

Mr Manoj Bhatta, Member Secretary of SWC

 

Mr Thakur Bhandari, Chairperson, FECOFUN

 

Mr Buddha Ghartee Bhujel, Senior Vice Chairperson, NEFIN

 

Ms Nimi Sherpa, Chairperson, NIWF

 

Mr Diwash Rai, Gen. Secretary, NEFIN

 

Mr Ghanashyam Pandey, Chairperson, Green Foundation Nepal

 

Dr Pasang Dolma Sherpa, Executive Director, CIPRED

 

 

Dr Kunsang Lama, Lawyer

 

Dr Krishna Acharya, Expert

 

Mr Dil Raj Khanal, Lawyer

 

 

    

Handing over the common position paper