Nepal faces several challenges to biodiversity conservation including low public awareness, high poverty rates, weak institutions, and a lack of integrated planning. Key threats include ecosystem loss due to overpopulation and development pressures, species loss due to poor management and data, and loss of genetic resources because of absent policies and uncoordinated management approaches.

1. Challenges/Issues of BD in Nepal
Threats of Ecosystem loss:
• Low level of public information and participation
• High population pressures and incidence of poverty
• Weak institutional capacity
• Lack of integrated land and water use planning

2. Threat of species loss
• Weak in administrative planning and management capacity.
• Inadequate data and information management
• High incidence of poverty
• Low level of public information and participation

3. Threat of loss of genetic resources
• Lack of policies or strategies for biodiversity conservation
• Low level of public information and participation
• High incidence of poverty
• Absence of an integrated/co-ordinated approaches to
management of biological resources
• Hybridization with alien species