Dort wohnen mehr als 32.000 Menschen unterschiedlicher Ethnien: Sherpa, Rai, Gurung, Tamang, Magar, Newar, Brahmin und Chhetri. ###>At the time, about 32,000 people resided in the conservation area's 12 Village Development Committees, who are primarily subsistence farmers of Sherpa, Rai, Gurung, Tamang, Magar, Newar, Brahmin and Chhetri ethnic groups.