With about 7000 species of vascular plants, Nepal is a globally important biodiversity hot-spot.
Nepal's biodiversity is under threat from over-exploitation of natural resources, habitat degredation and climate change. Conservation efforts are hampered by the lack of a Flora and the Government of Nepal has identified production of a Flora as a priority in its National Biodiversity Strategy.
RBGE is coordinating the Flora of Nepal project which is a joint venture with the Department of Plant Resources and Tribhuvan University Central Department of Botany in Kathmandu and the University of Tokyo. The most up to date current source of information on the plants of Nepal can be found at web version of the Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal.
For information on our work in Nepal, please see the Plants of Nepal website.
