WWF Experts
Shubash Lohani
Shubash Lohani
Deputy Director, Eastern Himalayas Program
Education
- MS - Environmental Science, The University of Tokyo
- BS - Environmental Science, Kathmandu University
Areas of Expertise
- Large scale conservation planning and management
- Large mammal conservation
- Natural resource management and governance
- Community development
- Climate change adaptation
“There is a beautiful reciprocal symmetry in conservation. My work with local communities in the Eastern Himalayas has shown me that when people take care of nature, nature takes care of them.”
About Shubash Lohani:
A Nepali citizen, Shubash is Deputy Director for the Eastern Himalaya Ecoregion program. He supports design, planning and implementation of landscape level conservation and sustainable development projects in six priority landscapes of Nepal, Northeast India and Bhutan.
Before joining WWF-US in 2007, he worked with WWF-Nepal, where he played an instrumental role in developing the Terai Arc Landscape and Nepal’s Tiger Conservation Action Plan. He also supported the design and implementation of several innovative conservation approaches in the Terai, including a carbon project for alternative energy. He led the development of strategic plans for WWF-Nepal and WWF-Bhutan and has grown and maintained important relationships with other non-governmental and governmental organizations, both in the United States and the Eastern Himalayas.
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