Background

• At the initiation and invitation of the IUCN Asia and Nepal, staff from Parks Victoria went to Kathmandu, Nepal to assist in the delivery of a 3 day Healthy Parks Healthy People (HPHP) workshop for 32 participants.
• The success of Parks Victoria’s HPHP initiative, a philosophy built on mounting research that inextricably links human health and wellbeing to contact and connection to nature has lead to the HPHP initiative being embraced by other park agencies in many developed countries.
• However, the question was being asked as to whether the same principles can be applied to