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A collaborative campaign for this year to prevent climate change or make your local community better off than last year concerning environmental problems |
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by Prayash Pathak (Chalise) | 19-02-2019 00:07
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Numerous amount of projects and campaigns are launched every year in Nepal that aim to mitigate the effect of climate change, either by generating public awareness or by protecting the natural resources. Among all those, today I am writing about a perfect example of collaborative effort of two big organizations, to fight climate change.
WWF and The Coca-Cola Foundation have joined hands to promote sustainable use of water, enhance livelihoods of local communities and conserve freshwater ecosystem in Nepal. The two-year project is based in Indrawati sub-basin in Nepal’s mid hills and Barandhavar corridor in Chitwan in the Terai Arc Landscape. Under the Indrawati sub-basin, the project will be implemented in Dhand Khola and Cha Khola catchments. Housing vital ecosystems of forests and freshwater, the two catchments are affected by growing urbanization, land use and land cover change and reduced water availability. These problems have been further exacerbated by climate change making the entire catchments vulnerable.Through an integrated water resource management approach, the project will work with local communities to promote wise use and management of water for household and agriculture use while replenishing ground water. This will be done through interventions such as spring source conservation and conservation ponds. Likewise, in Barandhavar corridor, the project will work on restoring and maintaining the ecological integrity of the Beeshazari and Associate Lakes by engaging local communities in conservation. The lake system was designated as Ramsar site in 2003; yet, the wetland is being affected by several threats such as pollution, invasive species, human pressure on wetland resources, and unsustainable source of water to the wetland. The project will implement interventions to reduce these threats and conduct a water quality assessment of the lake system to yield positive impacts on ecosystem services and economic benefits for local people from ecotourism. This will be an perfect working mechanism being grounded on the decades of field experience of WWF personnel and the economic backbone of Coca-Cola foundation. |
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4 Comments
Hello prayash
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 12-05-2020 18:44
Thank you for telling us about this program. I look forward to seeing what it achieves
Keep us updated!
Posted 19-02-2019 06:05
Thank you for such beautiful report.
Lets hope WWF and coca cola again go together for joint venture on environment conservation !!
Posted 19-02-2019 02:37
Greetings from the US,
I think its great that big corporations and organizations are finally realizing their environmental footprint and working to help the environment! Keep up the good writing!
Posted 19-02-2019 00:29