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Suresh Kumar Ghimire is an Assistant Lecturer at the Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University. He received his Masters Degree in Botany from Tribhuvan University in 1992. His major fields of interest are biodiversity, environment, systematics, phytogeography and ethnobotany. Since 1996, he has worked as a consultant for WWF Nepal Program. He has supervised eight M.Sc. level theses and published about 20 papers in national and international journals/publications. He was awarded the Krishna Chandra Regmi Award of Tribhuvan University in 1995.

Yeshi Choden Lama is a staff at WWF Nepal Program and is involved in projects implemented by WWF in and around Nepal’s protected areas. With a background in Sociology-Anthropology, her main interest lies inj understanding the interrelationship between cultures and their environment to further conservation of culture and biodiversity, as well as promote sustainable living in areas of high biological and cultural significance.

Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas is the technical and scientific advisor for the WWF Nepal Program People and Plants project at Shey Phoksundo National Park in Dolpa. She has a PhD in Terrestrial Ecology and Botany from the University of Montpellier, France. Her main area of research is ethnobiology inj relation to plant conservation and ecosystem management. She has worked for the UNESCO, WWF, R.B.G. Kew People and Plants initiative for the development of Ethnobotany applied to conservation and development, primarily as a Coordinator of the UNESCO/ICIMOD Ethnobotany Project in the Hindu Kush Himalayas for UNESCO since 1995, and as Regional Coordinator of the Himalayan Programme for WWF since 1997. In addition, she is now running a regional project for the development of wise practices on the theme “Himalayan Medicinal Plants in Trade”.