India, China and Nepal are set to launch a joint conservation initiative for the Mount Kailash landscape. The conservation will be meant to tackle the issue of glacial melt, biodiversity conservation and, interestingly, also have a mandate for cultural conservation in the Himalayan region.
This would be a first-of-its-kind trans-boundary conservation initiative in the area. “Concerns of climate change and glacial melt form a backdrop for the programme. We will be looking at biodiversity conservation and also work together for glaciology,” Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told The Indian Express. The trans-boundary programme will be launched in about two weeks.
The Environment Ministries from China and Nepal will be involved in the project, which has been launched under the guidance of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Ramesh had visited China last year, with an agenda for co-operation in the fields of glacier conservation and saving the tiger. He also met the Nepali Environment Minister recently, with the same mandate.
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