Nepal

Nepal is a landlocked country located in Southeast Asia, with terrain that varies from plains at the Ganges River to rugged mountains of the Himalayas. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Nepal has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include deforestation; soil erosion; water and air pollution.