Tiger/Rhino Conservation Project (TRCP) was launched in 2001 with the aim of promoting landscape level biodiversity conservation with strong community based management links to conserve endangered species in and around the Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP), a world heritage site.

The project has taken a bottom-up planning approach by which the local people organized into Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have become active partner of the programme rather than silent recipient of the benefits. The project has intervened in a number of areas related to community development like empowering the local community and institutional strengthening, providing technology and resources to develop entrepreneurship within the community; support community led infrastructure and management of schools, health centres, veterinary clinics, providing improved variety of breeds to increase productivity of milk and meat, and introduce income generating activities like vegetable farming, bee keeping and silk farming. Community development activities are directly contributing to reducing threats on the corridor resources; with the local communities themselves being the main actors in interfacing conservation and development activities. The project interventions regarding community development are based on feasibility and socio-economic studies. The project has adopted the model of community-managed forests successfully introduced in Baghmara and Kumrose area in the buffer zone of the Royal Chitwan National Park, for neutralizing the dependency of local people on forest resources and protecting wildlife habitat from unsustainable use.