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PODCAST – Forests for the Future: Family Planning in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape

April 3, 2009 By Wilson Center Staff

“The Terai Arc Landscape has a very high population growth rate; people are very much dependent on the natural resources,” says Sabita Thapa in this podcast from the Environmental Change and Security Program.
“We are especially working through the population, health, and environment project to address the issues of forest conversion, forest encroachment, and fuel extraction,” explains Thapa.
In this podcast, Thapa, now an environmental advisor with the United Nations Development Programme in the Solomon Islands, and Dhan Rai, senior project manager with World Wildlife Fund-Nepal, discuss WWF’s PHE program in Nepal’s Terai region.
To learn more about PHE in Nepal, read FOCUS Issue 18, “Forests for the Future: Family Planning in Nepal’s Terai Region.”
And for additional resources, please visit our PHE webpage.

Photo: Sabita Thapa. Courtesy of Meaghan Parker.

Topics: Asia, conservation, environment, family planning, forests, livelihoods, natural resources, PHE, podcast, population, poverty