Parks And Reserves, Terai Arc Landscape (TAL)

The Terai Arc Landscape spans the Himalayan foothills and adjacent flood-plain areas, and includes around 15 protected areas of Nepal and India. In 2014, Nepal and India observed 239 individual adult tigers using three forested wildlife corridors that “provide vital links between key protected areas across both sides of the international border....The study was conducted by the governments of both countries in partnership with its conservation and development partners, including WWF India, WWF Nepal, the National Trust for Nature Conservation and local communities. ‘We could not have asked for a better forum to share the results of this transboundary landscape effort because it shows that we must think and act beyond just islands of protected areas for tigers to truly thrive and have the space to double in number,' said Dr. Barney Long, director, WWF's Species Conservation Program. ‘The Terai Arc is perhaps the best example we have that bold, landscape level conservation can result in dramatic recoveries for wild tigers.'”