Preserving Nepal's National Parks: Law and Conservation in the Developing World

There is no doubt that tourism could eventually prove to be one of Nepal's major industries, and that another Switzerland or Kashmir lies shrouded and unrevealed to the world due only to inaccessibility.-E.P. Gee (1963) The mountains are still there and so is the park, attracting dozens of expeditions and thousands of trekkers from every nation, but over the last thirty years I have seen those forests and parklands being dramatically destroyed in response to the urgent needs of the visitors for firewood for heating and cooking.-