The banks of rivers and streams including Taprang River, Devi River, Bhadoli River, Ghormuna River, Sughare River, Karamje River, Lati River, the edges of playgrounds, and some vacant areas within community forests in this municipality are available as vacant areas for tree plantation.

Generally, the items used as forest products are wood, firewood, medicinal plants etc. Economic gains can be made by commercial production and export of such forest products by scientific management of forests or development of green areas. Especially in areas with large forest coverage, forests can be taken as the backbone of local development.

Looking at the situation of sales, distribution and consumption of forest products produced from Chaudandigadhi Municipality, the production here has been going to other areas within the district as well as other districts after meeting the supply of this municipality. In this municipality, wood/firewood consumption mainly occurs in industries based on forest products. Apart from this, the demand for wood/firewood required by the growing population and migration and urbanization and wood for development construction has been increasing. Households living close to forests consume more wood/firewood while households living far from forests consume very little wood/firewood.

Badel Pokhari

The rivers, streams and waterfalls including Taprang River, Devi River, Bhadoli River, Ghormuna River, Lati River, Karamje River, Gauri River, Duvar River, Aari River, Triyuga River, Sivahi River, Dolta River, Dunga River, Gher River, Badekha River, Jutpani River, Dudhkoshi, Chuila Waterfall, Lama River, Sundarpur Lake, Kali River, Kali Daha, Bhutiya Daha, Siddhipur Dhodeni Waterfall, Raksha Daha, Apra River are the main sources of watersheds here. Underground water, rivers, streams, canals, waterfalls, ponds, irrigation channels etc. are sources of water in the municipality.

Tin Dobhaneko Talau

The municipality has plant species including sal, sallo, bamboo, chilaune, teak, neem, thakal, simal, amala, bhalayo, badahar, chiuri, jamun, salla, kimbu, aiselu, katus, karam, saj, sal, sisau, and khayar.

Details of Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants such as harro, barro, amala, kurilo, sarpagandha, angeri, tulsi, gurjo, bhui amala, dalchini, chiraito, and sisno are found in the forest area of the municipality. There seems to be ample possibility of collection and sale of these medicinal plants.

The river and stream banks of the municipality fall in sensitive areas from the perspective of soil erosion. Due to human activities affecting the natural environment, uncontrolled forest fires, grazing trends, and haphazard extraction of stones and sand from streams in the municipality area have disrupted natural balance and concentrated uncontrolled flooding towards settlements and agricultural areas. As riverine materials are being extracted in quantities exceeding the capacity of streams, the possibility of erosion and soil loss in surrounding areas is increasing as the stream surface deepens. The human activities of human settlements centered around the municipality's streams have also adversely affected this sensitive area from the perspective of soil erosion due to seismic hazards. To stop this process, embankment arrangements and drainage systems need to be arranged. Similarly, conflicts between humans and wild animals have been causing various types of human incidents. Considering the need to adopt short-term, medium-term and long-term measures, clear and embankment construction as a short-term measure, plantation around the affected area as a medium-term measure, and conservation of the entire stream-affected area as a long-term measure, work needs to be advanced towards minimizing conflicts between humans and wild animals. It is seen that programs related to intensive watershed area conservation should be implemented without affecting the mentioned areas by human activities.

In this municipality, floods and landslides cause human and physical damage during the rainy season. This causes physical damage to many households annually. Problems include land erosion, damage to fish ponds, damage to livestock, damage to houses etc.

Due to geographical complexity, Nepal is in a high-risk zone for natural disasters. Large amounts of life and property are lost annually in Nepal due to natural disasters. The pain of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal is still fresh. The municipality is also in a sensitive state from the perspective of natural disasters. Especially natural disasters like floods, river erosion, storms, hailstones, lightning, lack of rain, dry drought, and forest fires have been appearing in this municipality. The past COVID-19 and epidemics spreading at various times have had a deep impact on economic and other sectors as well. Although such disasters generally cannot be fully controlled, the loss of life and property can be minimized by adopting impact mitigation measures. The municipality has put forward policies such as making the municipal-level disaster management committee and ward-level disaster management committee more active and effective, managing essential materials for disasters, continuing embankment and river control works in risky places caused by various flash floods and rivers using funds obtained from extraction and sale of riverine materials to minimize water-induced disaster damage, formulating and implementing the municipality's local disaster risk management plan for effective and planned management of disasters, establishing a disaster fund and operating emergency assistance programs, publishing and broadcasting awareness-raising subjects through local media to avoid disaster and epidemic problems, as well as coordinating, collaborating and partnering with government and non-government bodies active in this sector.

Although there is access to health services at the municipality center, emergency health services could not be delivered from health institutions of all wards. To provide health services to patients in emergency situations, 6 ambulances, 1 fire engine and 1 fire extinguisher are in operation with 24-hour service within the municipality. It seems necessary to arrange additional necessary ambulances in various wards of the municipality to provide service in emergency situations in various communities.