Invest in the environment

We must build our opportunities but not at the cost of the environment and people.

A 2017 study on land use and land cover change in the Phewa Lake watershed which analysed Landsat images captured in three consecutive periods—1975, 1995 and 2015—reveals that there has been a significant shift over the past four decades. According to the study, there has been a substantial reversal of land degradation and forest recovery due to community-based forest landscape restoration activities. Researchers also noted that while water discharge rates may have decreased following the increase in forest area, siltation has been reduced, protecting water quality in the lake and benefiting local economic development.