This report is the outcome of the South Asian Regional Review of Community Involvement in Wildlife Management. This was conducted as part of a global series of regional reviews for the IIED's project "Evaluation Eden: Assessing the Impacts of Community Wildlife Management". This report provides an ecological and socio-economic profile of South Asia and it provides descriptions of the history and current status of wildlife/biodiversity conservation and community widllife management in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.