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OTTER CONSERVATION ACTION PLAN FOR NEPAL (2026-2035) Government of Nepal Ministry of Forests and Environment Department of Forests Department of National Parks and Soil Conservation i and Wildlife Conservation Babarmahal, Kathmandu Babarmahal, Kathmandu OTTER PSR CONSERVATION ACTION PLAN FOR METAL. NEPAL Government of Nepal Ministry of Forests and Environment Department of Forests and Soil Conservation Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Babarmahal, Kathmandu Babarmahal, Kathmandu March 2026 TECHNICAL TEAM Mr. Haribhadra Acharya, Senior Ecologist, DNPWC Mrs. Sabnam Pathak, Forest Officer, DFSC Mrs. Rachana Shah, NTNC Mr. Rajesh Sada, WWF Nepal Dr. Shyam Kumar Thapa, ZSL Nepal Mr. Rishi Ram Dhakal, Ecologist, DNPWC Mr. Divesh Shrestha, Ecologist, DNPWC Mr. Sanjan Bahadur Thapa, SMCRF REVIEW TEAM Dr. Buddi Sagar Poudel, Director General, DNPWC Mr. Dhirendra Kumar Pradhan, Director General, DFSC Mr. Bed Kumar Dhakal, Deputy Director General, DNPWC Dr. Kanchan Thapa, WWF Nepal Ms. Arati Khadgi, WWF Nepal Dr. Melissa Savage, IUCN Otter Specialist Group Prof. Paras Acharya, Tribhuvan University Technical and financial support from WWF Nepal and SMCRF funded from Darwin Initiative PUBLISHED BY Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) and Department of Forests and Soil Conservation (DFSC), Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal COPYRIGHT © Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation and Department of Forests and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal 2026. SUGGESTED CITATION DNPWC & DFSC (2026). Otter Conservation Action Plan for Nepal (2026-2035). Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) and Department of Forests and Soil Conservation (DFSC), Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal. FRONT COVER PHOTO: © Saroj Khadka/DNPWC: A pair of smooth-coated otters in Bardia National Park