Hindu Kush-Himalaya Watersheds Downhill: Landscape Ecology and Conservation Perspectives

re-assembled from literature and interview data.- Urban Ecology in shops and housing: An example of culture, religion and how (nesting) Barn Swallows, House and Tree Swallows create for a lively human-wildlife link at the commercial interface.- Pallas's Cat in Annapurna, Nepal: What we know thus far and what is to come.- Status of otters in Nepal: A link with ancient waterways and people.- Wildlife Diplomacy and Gifting in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region: A chronological history and opinion of Nepalese literates.- Birds of Nepal: their status and conservation especially with regards to watershed perspectives.- A governance analysis of the snow leopard, its habitat and data: Who owns charismatic animals and who drives and uses the agenda for what?- The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP): Towards a success story in landscape feature and watershed conservation management.- The forgotten species and their data: Museums in Nepal and examples.- A rather short story of the GIS data layers in HKH.- A pollination, insect and IUCN view: Ecological Services matter the most.- Sarus Cranes and Stork species hotspots from geo-referenced rapid assessments in Lumbini: Holy species and religious attitudes drive entire ecological communities and services for the benefit of a nation.- Part 4 Very Serious Problems in the HKH nations.- A 'global change' eulogy, sermons and obituaries: Everest, the models, the reality, the governmental mis-behavior, associated institutional terror and the global abuse of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region.- The gods are angry: A first-hand account and an experience of the earthquake in hindsight.- Hydrodams: Death by over 500 cuts and blockages virtually build without Impact Assessment.- Hydrodams again: Lost Dolphins, expensive Gharials, cut Fish migration, and energy for non-sustainable mining and societies abroad fueling non-democratric governance and industry.- Persistent evidence for a dramatic decline in Langurs in Nepal, and likely elsewhere, too.- SnowLeopards in 2100?- The fate of the great woodpeckers and hornbills in Nepal: No big trees, no life.- Poaching and illegal Trade of Wildlife: What do the media say for the Nepali-Chinese and Nepali-Indian border?- Looking at Road and Railroad Development Data in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Rock-solid impacts created by Globalization, The World Bank and its affiliates, as well as by the Great Himalaya Trail.- Why do some many Nepalis, medical doctors, CEOs and Hedge Fund Managers get sick or die on Everest (Sagarmatha, Chomolungma) ? A review and indicators that capitalism went awful while searching human dignity and itself.- Part 5 A fresh look and successful templates for HKH: Business as usual is dead.- Small and effective NGOs as a role model for bigger success: The Global Primate Network (now 'Third Pole Conservancy').- When Micro drives the Macro: A fresh look at disease and their massive contributions in the Himalaya.- What Mining has in stock down river for Mongolia and beyond: A personal assessment of watersheds and rivers.- Good Citizen Science experience downstream of Everest: The Koshi Birding Club.- Citizen Science experience: Green Youth Club promoting Cranes in Lumbini region.- When governments cannot do it anymore and capitalism, neoliberal policies and globalization get imposed without democracy: Self-organization beyond E. Ostrom.- Quo Vadis the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Realistic Sustainable Development horror scenarios while climate change, human increase and global conservation decay rise further?- Index.