People's Livelihood Activities in Maidi Lake of Lekhnath Municipality Kaski District, Nepal

Abstract

This thesis entitled "People's livelihood Activities in Maidi Lake of Lekhnath Municipality, Kaski District, Nepal" is mainly focused on the floral – faunal users in Maidi Lake. This study tried to reveal the livelihood activities of local dwellers in Maidi Lake. This study tried to explore how livelihood activities of local dwellers depend on Maidi Lake's grass, fish and Gudh. It aims to study the roles, challenges, opportunities and conservational strategy, common property, subsistence of livelihood of the participants in this lake. The local people of diverse cultures and origin were taken under study with 379 as per convenience sampling method. Primary as we as secondary source of data were used in the study. Direct field observation, key informants, focus group, discussion, interview, case study were used for the collection of primary data. Secondary data and information were extracted from the published and unpublished sources such as journals, books, internet sources, as per the requirement of the research. The data were analyzed by simple statistical tools as software Ms-Excel, table and percentage.

The findings of this study reveals people's livelihood activities on the harnessing species in Maidi Lake, poor conservational strategy, endangered condition of wetland and livelihood support on the local dwellers. The finding reveals that the adaptation strategies by the users community should be promoted and their indigenous knowledge of adaptation should be shaped into the frame of sustainable adaptation and livelihood support with scientific way of conservation of wetland, Maidi Lake.