AR-News: NEPAL AUTHORIZES WILDLIFE FARMING FOR CONSERVATION

[jim robertson]

NEPAL AUTHORIZES WILDLIFE FARMING FOR CONSERVATION

By Deepak Gajurel KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 18, 2004 (ENS) - Wildlife farming 
might sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is the government of 
Nepal's new strategy for conserving animal species. New avenues have been 
opened for farming, breeding and research of high value wild species under 
the government's new Wildlife Farming, Reproduction and Research Policy. The 
government has started issuing licenses although no law establishing the 
policy is in place.

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