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Nepal is a small country but rich in natural and cultural resources due to the blend of diverse caste and native cultures, variegated bio-natural landscapes, snowcapped mountains and indigenous wonders. It is a diverse nation landlocked between the world’s two most populous and rapidly progressing countries, China and India. Along with its own diversified socio-cultural and political historicity, Nepal has in the long run evolved as a country that implicitly characterizing a nation state. Limbu indigenous knowledge system regarding biodiversity (ecology, environment, etc.) and Limbu cultural identity are interdependent, and hence changes and crises in one inevitably affect the other; losses on biodiversity cause losses on cultural identity, and vice-versa. Additionally, simultaneous considerations on Limbu indigenous knowledge and Limbu cultural phenomena can be helpful to plan cultural, environmental and other policies and address the problems caused by climate change and global warming from both atic and emic perspectives. The major objectives of this book are: a. to document the Limbu indigenous knowledge system and Limbu cultural phenomena, and show what kind of correlation do they have; b. to find out how human ecology is shaped by Limbu indigenous knowledge system in order to construct Limbu cultural identities; and, c. to recommend appropriate policy and planning to the concerned authorities for safeguarding of indigenous knowledge in local, regional and national level inclusion endeavors, and, to find out relationship among local biodiversity, Limbu culture and environmental changes.