The International Conference on Biodiversity Conservation and Management for Enhanced Ecosystem Services: Responding to the Challenges of Global Change was held from 16-18 November 2008 at the ICIMOD Headquarters in Khumalatar, Lalitpur. The Conference was accompanied by two preconference workshops on Mountain Transboundary Protected Areas (10-14 November 2008), Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information (15-16 November 2008), and a postconference workshop on a Research Strategy on Global Change in Mountain Biosphere Reserves (19 November 2008).