credits

The project team would like to thank the UK Government's Darwin Initative for funding this project (Project Number 162/12/030), and the Staff and Management of the collaborating institutes: Royal Botanic Garden Edinbugh; Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology; Department of Plant Resources, HM Government of Nepal, Ministry for Forestry and Soil Conservation; and Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University.

This project would also not be possible without the help and significant support of:

	The British Embassy, Nepal, for providing a workshop venue, sound advice, and help with travel logistics
	The British Council Nepal, for help with delivery of equipment and further sound advice
	Gulf Air, for sponsorship-in-kind with discounted airfares, help with travel arrangments and generous excess baggage allowances

We would also like to acknowledge the support of:

• Adam Phones (satellite phone hire)
• Cambridge University Press
• Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal
• ICIMOD
• IUCN Nepal
• Joshua Roth (digging trowels)
• Nepal Botanical Society
• Nepal Telecommunications Corportation (Namaste pre-pay cellular phone sim cards)
• Proporta (computer supplies)
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (publications and CBD Office)
• WWF Nepal Program