Livelihood

HCRI's livelihood action includes a holistic approach encompassing many components of health, education, skill based training, capacity building and awareness.

Human-wildlife Conflict

The number of snow leopard is declining because of habitat degradation and fragmentation, reduction in natural prey due to illegal hunting as well as competition with livestock, retaliatory killing of snow leopard, lack of awareness and lack of trans-boundary efforts and HCRI actively engage upland communities as stewards for the snow leopard, its prey and habitat, provide veterinary training to local livestocks herders and create conservation awareness on local people.

Expansion of human settlement and agricultural fields has resulted in the widespread loss of elephant habitat. The reduction of landscape connectivity has resulted in dramatic decline of elephant population. Different activities are implemented to reduce the prevailing human-elephant conflict in Eastern Nepal carried out through HCRI such as awareness programs, research and training to the local people.