NEPAL || Indigenous Peoples in protected areas A country report on criminalization and violation of subsistence occupation and customary rights

Protected areas in Nepal make up 23.39 percent of its total land area. It comprises of national parks, hunting reserves, conservation areas and wildlife reserves. All these areas belong to, if not overlap with the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples. The establishment of these areas resulted in massive displacement and other human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples that continue until today.