The Sacred Himalayan Landscape

The Sacred Himalayan Landscape (SHL) was conceptualized to conserve and protect the ecological integrity of the Himalaya by nurturing, and reviving, the traditional spiritual beliefs and practices of the local people that have, for millennia, sustained the mountain ecological systems; from the alpine meadows, through the temperate broadleaf and conifer forests in the mid hills to the Terai grasslands. The freshwater rivers and streams that originate from high altitude glaciers and the antecedent rivers that dissect deep gorges in the mountain range thread the transverse terrestrial ecosystems as vertical aquatic ecological links.

This film is about the best practices and successful cases that have materialized through various projects, and the opportunities that are arising as gaps in mountain program – for instance, climate change adaptation, REDD, health issues, which are relatively new areas of interventions for WWF.