To mark the "National Conservation Day 2072", Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation in coordination with its consortium partners organized an event on 24th September, 2015. The theme of National Conservation Day - 2072 emphasized on balanced approach for both nature conservation as well as disaster management. This day also commemorates the tragic loss of nation's conservation heroes, who lost their lives in a helicopter accident on 23 September, 2006.

Rt. Honorable Chief Justice, Kalyan Shrestha inaugurated the program chaired by Honorable Minister for Forests and Soil Conservation, Mahesh Acharya. The event followed various programs some of which included distribution of awards/scholarships, publication launch, shadow play on conservation and reconstruction, and a documentry showing how earthquake affected victims have managed to build safer habitat using natural resources.

On this occasion, a book "Birds of Rara" was launched by Bird Conservation Nepal and DNPWC. The book is a systematic checklist which provides all the confirmed bird records from Rara (an Important Bird and Biodiversity Area). The books serves multipurpose that can be useful for write ups, advocacy and policy makers.

Similarly, under BCN's initiative, Jatayu Research Grant 2015 was announced. The award was handed to Ms. Pushpa Bhandari and Ms. Bijeta Thapa by honorable minister for Forests and Soil Conservation Mr. Mahesh Acharya . This scholarship supports university students of Nepal who are undertaking research on vultures of Nepal as a partial fulfillment of their masters degree. The scholarships are announced annually and provided to two deserving candidates.