Rijul Bhaskar Gurung on Clubhouse

Bio

MOUNT EVEREST FOREST BOTANICALS ALLIANCE
 
Linking livelihood opportunities for environmental conservation through market linkages to meet SDG goals. Leveraging co-impact entrepreneurship with Climate Change local actions based on Ecosystem based Adaptation. We focus on women, IP people, excluded minorities and rural youths.
 
 Partnership :
 
**    Federation of Community Forest User Groups, Nepal (FECOFUN) – Women led, largest green Civil Society of 23,000 groups with 8 million members in Nepal.
**    Forest & Farm Facility, FAO
**    IUCN
 
Grassroots community owned projects:
 
One Million Women – Ten Million Trees
Nepal Bamboo Mission
The Forest Honey Project
The Chepang IP Women Chiuri Butter Project
The Karnali Herbals Initiative
 
Interventions:
 
Wildcrafting & Cultivation of high value/rare medicinal and aromatic botanicals (sustainable and organic)for luxury Ayurveda.
 
Developing nutraceuticals/cosmeceuticals in collaboration with cosmetics industry co-impact sourcing agencies for native plant based butters, oils and oleoresins of - Wild Apricot, Himalayan Almond, Butter Tree, Prinsepia Royle and Pogostemon
 
www.forestalliancenepal.com
 
Grassroots Alliance of 2340 Community Forest User Groups(CFUG) from 7 districts of Nepal with 184,358 strong members comprising of mostly women, IP groups, youths and covid-19 migrant laborer returnees.
 
·      Mission to Protect Nepal’s 532,500 ha of Forest through community Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) SMEs
 
Flagship Initiative:
 
The Chepang Forest Landscape Restoration Project
( a 7,000 hectare community forest based project  with full stack SDG goals incorporation)
 
We are looking for collaborators to launch and scale the project to generate massive carbon sequestration and gainful agroforestry practices to cultivate medicinal Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
 
All mails will be answered: [email protected]
 
Thank you and Namaste