Conservation Biology of the Himalayas

Conservation Biology is well established as an integrated multidisciplinary discipline that brings together various professionals (e.g., ecologists, sociologists, geologists and economists) to provide a scientific basis of biodiversity conservation. The challenges in biodiversity conservation are of multidisciplinary nature, and these challenges are rapidly increasing. This urgently needs innovative approaches focusing on particular species and ecosystems. Himalayas contain interconnected and complex ecosystems that scientists from Himalayan regions or elsewhere should focus on identifying connectedness between these ecosystems and livelihood (see sections in the main text). Such studies will carve an important position for Himalayan biodiversity as a distinct subdiscipline of conservation biology.