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Lokesh Ratna Shakya

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Fellowship
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£16,540
WHERE ICON
WHERE
Nepal

Summary

Almost all of the 388 orchid species in Nepal are threatened. Conservation activities are severely hampered by lack of reliable information on their taxonomy, ecology and distribution: both within protected areas and outside. Much of these data can be discovered in herbaria in the UK and Nepal which hold the collections of past botanical expeditions. Dr Lokesh Shakya, expert on Nepalese orchids, will augment his study of specimens in Nepal by working on those housed in Britain. He will study alongside UK orchid experts, and finalise the much needed account of orchid for the Flora of Nepal: filling a critical gap in the knowledge of the Indo-Burmese Global Biodiversity Hotspot.
 
Status Completed
Reference EIDPS021
Round 16
Start 01/09/2009
End 31/08/2010

Project Leader



Regions
South Asia

Countries
Nepal

Documents:
Download: Final Report - EIDPS021 FWFR - 09/02/2011

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPS021 FWHYR - 23/12/2010

Download: Application Form - EIDPS021 App - 14/10/2010