Correction: Biodiversity conservation and management through forest landscape restoration in the Western Himalaya, India

S. S. Samant¹Vikram S. Negi²Ravi Pathak³Bhawana Dangwal³Ravindra K. Joshi³Subodh Airi³K Chandra Sekar³Shreekar Pant^4*Indra Dutt Bhatt³

• ¹Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, India
• ²Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, India
• ³Govind Ballabh Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Almora, India
• ⁴Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajauri, India

The authors are thanking the Director, G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, for thank the Director, G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment (NIHE), Kosi-Katarmal, Almora, for the facilities. All the authors are deeply thankful to Dr. S.S. Samant (Former Scientist, GBPNIHE, and Director, HFRI Shimla) for conceptualizing the idea of the conservation model 'Suryakunj' and for developing the site with a rich collection of native, endemic, and economically important plants at GBPNIHE, Kosi Almora, Uttarakhand. We sincerely acknowledge the hard work and years of effort that Dr S.S. Samant and team have invested in developing the Suryakunj conservation model. We sincerely acknowledge Late Dr. U. Dhar (Former Director, GBPNIHE) for his support and contribution in conceptualization of the site. We sincerely acknowledge the contribution of the Late Dr. R.S. Rawal (Former Director, GBPNIHE), who, after 2003, took charge of this site and played a key role in the upgradation and further development of 'Suryakunj' as a successful restoration cum conservation model. A special thanks to Shri Jagdish Bisht for his sincere and excellent efforts in the development of the site. Further, we acknowledge all the scientists, students, and other staff members of GBPNIHE who directly or indirectly contributed to the development of the successful restoration and conservation model, 'Suryakunj'. Funding from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&cCC) under the LEAD BG project is gratefully acknowledged for the development of the site. The original version of this article has been updated.