As there was a lack of biodiversity related legislation and policy measures for conservation of biodiversity, the loss of biodiversity in Nepal is ever increasing. Therefore, Pro Public felt an urgent need to train the high level government, local government, non-government and media officials about the need to conserve the biodiversity of the country. Pro Public conducted a Biodiversity Conservation Education Program from April 1998 to December 1999. The main focus of the Biodiversity Education Program was to prepare appropriate resource materials in various aspects of biodiversity; and impart training to high level government, non-government and media personnel. It is expected that this effort will help the decision-makers and the agents of change of Nepal to learn about the conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of its components, which in the long run, will contribute to economic and social development and conservation of bio-diversity. The program has been initiated with the objectives, among others, to create an informative, concise resource materials on conservation of bio-diversity for the Nepalese decision-makers; to promote the development of expertise in bio-diversity conservation amongst parliamentarians and relevant senior governmental and non-governmental decision-makers and professionals; to channel and make use of the significant experience of the parliamentarians and senior decision-makers and professionals at whom the program is targeted so as to improve Nepal's ability to protect its bio-diversity and fulfill the obligations arising from the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Pro Public organized four, four-day training program, training program in the Eastern Region (Ilam, Biratnagar, Sharan and Lahan. The modus operandi of the training was interactive presentation, discussion and field visit. There were altogether 120 participants comprising heads of local government institutions, heads of concerned government line agencies, representatives of NGOs and media and the lawyer community. Since this was the first training program of this type being organized in Eastern Nepal, the resource persons focused on the conceptual issues rather than going into technical details. The participants, representing a cross section of people, had given a number of critical inputs in the papers presented at the training program.

Later Pro Public planned to incorporate their recommendations in the papers; compiled them and published a book titled "Bio-diversity Conservation Education Resource Materials.