About Us
The Kankali Community Forest is located in the foothills of the Mahabharata Range in Khairahani Municipality 4. Due to the volatile political situation during the year of 2046 B.S. in the country, the high encroachment in the forest and, the illegal harvesting of the woods, the Kankali Community Forest was once a degraded and almost like a naked forest and gone forever.
However, when the people living in the lap of the forest suffered the problems of landslides, the life for survival became complicated and the people began to migrate in other places. Hence, community realized the importance of biodiversity and took an initiation for the forest conservation since 2047 B.S. The Kankali Community Forest was once the headquarter of Chitwan district as well. The District Forest Office (DFO) of Chitwan on 2052 B.S. has legitimately handed the forest over the user community.
Presently, the total user members of the community forest are 1830 households, which covers all the (1-4) wards of Khairahani Municipality. The user members of the forest having different ethnicity are Tamang, Darai, Chepang, Bote, Kumal, Brahmin, etc.
However, when the people living in the lap of the forest suffered the problems of landslides, the life for survival became complicated and the people began to migrate in other places. Hence, community realized the importance of biodiversity and took an initiation for the forest conservation since 2047 B.S. The Kankali Community Forest was once the headquarter of Chitwan district as well. The District Forest Office (DFO) of Chitwan on 2052 B.S. has legitimately handed the forest over the user community.
Presently, the total user members of the community forest are 1830 households, which covers all the (1-4) wards of Khairahani Municipality. The user members of the forest having different ethnicity are Tamang, Darai, Chepang, Bote, Kumal, Brahmin, etc.
Objectives of KCF (Kankali Community Forest)
To fulfill a certain degree of the local people's need for fodder, firewood and timber and to create a sense of ownership of the natural resources among the local people with the view to involve them in the conservational and promotional programs of the local forests.
To uplift the socio-economic condition of the poor user communities by conducting various livelihood options such as micro-enterprise activities with the income made by forest and to help preserve the environment and establish Chitwan as the pollution free city of the nation.
To involve the local communities in the preservation of the natural resources including the endangered species to increase per capita income of the local communities by attracting national as well as international tourists to Chitwan and To conserve the biodiversity in the forests of Chitwan
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