A significant decrease in availability of all NTFPs and especially those of commercially traded as well as banded species (Dactylorhiza hatagirea) has been experienced in Jumla (Paudel 2007). Dactylorhiza hatagirea (an endemic medicinal plant of Hindu Kush Himalaya) is a slow growing pollinator specificity species that regenerates poorly having high medicinal property (Sharma et al 2005; Bhattarai et al 2014).

D. hatagirea is an important medicinal plant species prioritized by government for research and management (DPR, 2006). According to Forest act 1993 and Forest Regulation 1995, Nepal Government has banned the rhizome of D. hatagirea to collect, trade and process.

The protected areas are effective for the protection of the species where they provide training and support to the community. In contrast, people of unprotected area lack any capacity strengthen training as well as awareness programme that result unscientific mass harvesting and trading of of NTFPs along with D. hatagirea tubers through illegal channels every year (Ghimire 2008). The least knowledge of the species and its sustainable management in the study area forced the species to decline in alarming rate so an immediate conservation measure should have to taken.