Publisher : International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Place of publication : Nepal
Publication year : 2007
Thematic : Biodiversity
Language : English
Note
The paper is divided into three sections. The fi rst part provides an account of transboundary biodiversity
conservation in the eastern Himalayas, including an introduction to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the
concept of transboundary landscape management, the historical development of transboundary cooperation in
the Kangchenjunga landscape, and the development of the Regional Cooperation Framework. The Framework
itself is presented in Section 2. Section 3 provides further details of the Convention on Biological Diversity and
its programme of work on mountain biodiversity, and on some other major initiatives supporting transboundary
biodiversity cooperation in other mountain areas.
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Keywords : Ontogenetic habitat shift
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje