 Cultural diversity is scored based on "a country's language diversity, religion diversity, and ethnic group diversity".Recent programs in the Eastern Himalayas have also engaged this concept to promote conservation.In 2000, Ricardo Rozzi coined the term biocultural conservation to emphasize that “1) conservation biology issues involve [ontologically,
epistemologically, and ethically] both humans and other living beings, 2) biological and cultural diversity are inextricably integrated, and 3) social welfare and biocultural conservation go together” (p. 10) .