Bhutan for Life includes 10 protected areas (and the Royal Botanical Park) and 8 biological corridors that together constitute 51.44% of the area of Bhutan. There are 35,000 people (7,000 households) living within the protected area network10, most of whom depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. In addition, approximately 110,000 people living in rural areas less than 10 km from protected area borders, and almost half Bhutan’s population living in rural areas downstream benefit from an array of ecosystem services that protected areas provide. (See next section for more information on how communities interact with and benefit from the protected area network.)