Department of National Park and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) has been celebrating first week of Nepali new year as Wildlife Week in collaboration with national partners organising several awareness activities about wildlife of Nepal. Like previous year BCN also joined hand with DNPWC in celebrating 16thWildlife Week and took a lead on organising birdwatching at Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park (SNNP) on 16 April 2011. There was huge participation of around 150 students from different schools and people from various partner organizations. All together 63 species of birds were observed and heard by four different groups who went to four different part of the park.

On the same day, Mr. Krishna Acharya, Director General, DNPWC inaugurated hoarding board with detail map of SNNP in front of the main entrance of the park. More hoarding board of same kind will be established at several other parts of the park. This is an informative hoarding board for people to know which part of the park they are. Informative leaflet about ecosystem services were also distributed on the closing ceremony of the Wildlife Week. The hoarding board was established with a joint support from BCN, Chandra Gurung Foundation and donation made by friends of Marc Vincent on the occasion of his 50th Birthday.