High Mountains and High Himal Forests of Nepal

Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction. 2. Previous forest resources assessment. 3. Methodology. 4. Technical challenges and limitations. 5. Results. 6. References. 7. Annex.

From the foreword: The Government of Nepal, with support from the Government of Finland, implemented the Forest Resource Assessment Nepal (FRA Nepal) project from 2010 to 2014 with an aim to generate forest resource information for supporting policy-making, strategic planning and international reporting.

All five physiographic regions of the country were covered in this assessment. This report presents the results of the forest resource assessment of the High Mountains and High Himal physiographic regions of Nepal. The report gives a wide range of information including forest cover, growing stock, biomass and forest carbon. Results of the study show that the forest areas of the High Mountains and High Himal physiographic regions have increased since the last assessment period.