Wildlife Management

**3**

**Chapter 1**

Nepal

**Abstract**

**1. Introduction**

Wildlife Population Monitoring

Animals at Protected Areas in

*Amir Sadaula, Yagya Raj Pandeya, Yogendra Shah,* 

Nepal is a small country located in South Asia which is geographically highly diverse and fairly rich in its variety of endangered wild animals. Conservation and monitoring of endangered wildlife is great challenging task in developing country like Nepal. Different body parts of wild animals are used as raw material for making pharmaceutical products, cosmetic, and other purpose; hence their value increased in the international market, as a result poaching and trading activities of endangered wild animals has been increased rapidly at protected areas in Nepal. This review will provide detailed information about different population monitoring techniques being applied for different endangered wild animals in protected areas of Nepal. Techniques like camera trapping, radio collar, noninvasive methods, mobile application, GPS, GIS, direct head count, etc. are commonly used for monitoring wildlife in Nepal. Since conservation of endangered wildlife species has become very much crucial, more advance technologies and social network analysis will be also used to determine the

Nepal is a small landlocked country located in Southeast Asia surrounded by India (South, East, and West) and China (North), which is geographically highly diverse and fairly rich in its variety of endangered flagship species, that is, wild animal and plants. The conservation of endangered wild animal species is a major challenge to government conservation of endangered wild animal species is a major threat as well as a challenge to government in developing countries particularly Nepal to protect the loss and degradation of natural habitats, poaching, and illegal trade activities of their crucial body parts for making pharmaceutical products, cosmetic, and other purpose [1]. Therefore, monitoring tools

*Dhan Kumar Pant and Rabin Kadariya*

monitoring of wild animals at protected areas in Nepal.

**Keywords:** South Asia, conservation, protected areas

Study among Endangered
