Nepal is rich in biodiversity but its significance is poorly understood among the general public. There is a huge potential to promote ecotourism for livelihoods which requires baseline information and guidelines. Education and awareness also help to conserve natural diversity through sustainable use.

From just 60 meter from the sea level to the highest point on earth, Nepal is a home to various climatic zone, rich biodiversity and ethnic groups. It is also home to approximately 9 percent of the world's bird's species, 4 percent of mammalian species, over 2 per cent of the flowering plants. Several of these have become endangered as a result of various factors, including deforestation.

Despite its rich biodiversity and culture, Nepal is confronting with various environmental issues like high dependency on natural resources, deforestation, and loss in soil fertility, growing poverty, low level of awareness on conservation issues and pollution, among others. Given the intertwining of environmental degradation and poverty, sustainable use of natural resources is instrumental for Nepal's poverty reduction and development.

This radio programme on environment seeks to increase the general awareness of the issues and contribute for its conservation. It will incorporate policy level dialogue on eminent issues, interview with related experts, exchanged radio programmes, field level reporting and news update.

Radios are highly accessible and within the reach of the common people, which reinforces a need to a quality programme for conservation and environment awareness. The geographical terrain and settings of the country hinders for getting the facility of the print media, peoples' illiteracy is no less instrumental in this connection. This radio program will attain over 20 million people of the country.

Every components of the programme will have a direct link with the environment and livelihoods with the issues of biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation and issues of sustainable development.