<h3>Summary</h3>
This map shows the sites prioritised for studying ecosystem profiles by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, in the Eastern Himalayas region in India.
<h3>Description</h3>
The sites in the Eastern Himalayas shown here were prioritised by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) for studying the ecosystem profile, to provide an overview of the biodiversity contained within the said region.
<h3>Methodology</h3>
The map was created from the original map provided by CEPF in their final report of the Ecosystem Profile of the Eastern Himalayas in February 2005. The locational accuracies and boundaries were adjusted and corrected respectively, using Google Earth. The area of each of the sites were also calculated and put up in the map.
<h3>Eastern Himalayas</h3>
Eastern Himalayas in India comprises of the entire states of Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and northern extents of West Bengal including the districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar. It is only in the Eastern Himalayas ecoregion can one find rhinos, tigers and elephants coexisting with millions of people in the Terai grasslands. Snow leopards, red pandas, Himalayan black bears, spectacular alpine meadows and golden langur monkeys thrive in the temperate mountain forests. The forests house some of the rarest plant species and orchids. This ecosystem profile provides an overview of the biodiversity contained within the Eastern Himalayas Region. Based on the distribution and status of biodiversity and conservation opportunities, the profile provides a suite of conservation outcomes, expressed as a hierarchy of species-, site-, and corridor-level targets that must be achieved by the conservation community to prevent biodiversity loss.
<h3>Weblinks</h3>
Some useful links
http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/CEPF.EasternHimalayas.factsheet.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Himalaya
http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/easternhimalayas/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/himalaya/
http://www.cepf.net/xp/cepf/static/pdfs/WWCEPbulletin_Aug2008.pdf
<h3>References</h3>
CEE. 2003. Profile Of North East India –A Report. Unpublished report by Centre for Environmental Education, NE, India. Prepared by Soumen Dey, Nandita Hazarika, Raj Kamal Phukan, Moushumi Das, Kenneth.M. Pala, for CEPF/BirdLife International.
Goswami, A. 2000. Status Report from Northeast Regional Office (WWF-India) at the Eastern Himalayas Biodiversity Conservation Workshop at Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary.
Karanth, K.U. and J.D. Nichols. 1998. Estimating tiger densities in India from Camera Trap Data using Photographic Captures and Recaptures. Ecology 79:2852-2862.
UNDP. 1998. Ecoregional Co-operation for Biodiversity Conservation in the Himalaya. Report on the International Meeting on Himalaya Ecoregional Co-operation. UNDP/WWF/ICIMOD. 396 pp.
Evegreen Forests in North Bengal
credit: Shuvankar Ghosh, ATREE
Subansiri River in Arunachal
credit: Nikhil Lele, ATREE