One-third of the world's people depend on wood for fuel as a significant energy source. ... Although local people of Nepal have been conservationist since the time immemorial, the conservation history of Nepal begins officially after the enactment of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act in 1972. However, there were few other legislative provisions by far indirectly acting for the conservation of natural resources. The true type of wetland conservation legislation is still to come in the country context. To begin with the conservation of legislation of the wetlands, a beginning sh...

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The principal activities undertaken by Ministry of Environment and Forests, consist of conservation and survey of flora, fauna, forests and wildlife, prevention and control of pollution, afforestation and regeneration of degraded areas and protection of environment, in the frame work of legislations. ...

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