The projects? objective was to generate awareness among the people on issues of biodiversity, developing pastures and plantations so that degraded biodiversity could be balanced. Developing a good database on the local crops, their seeds as a gene bank and forming a community based system to manage the natural resources through capacity building were the other focused areas.
The major activities to achieve the set objectives were capacity building, strengthening VDCs, training and exposure programmes of VDCs, exhibition on biodiversity and awareness campaign. Physical activities were: development of pasture land, nursery raising, plantation of local species in the community land (specially on ?Dev Bani?), agriculture fields and on private land, collection of information of local variety of agriculture seeds and the cropping pattern, demonstration of improved variety crops. It also included information compilation on traditional practices for pest control, developing medicine bank for agricultural diseases, demonstration of improved methods to increase the quality of fodder and formation of a committee at village level to protect wild animals.