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In India, forest rights means forest conservation
CFR rights enable successful ecological restoration of forests, biodiversity conservation and food and livelihood security.
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Locking horns to save the Sacred Cow: India’s Indigenous Pastoralists Fight for Their Livelihoods and Cultural Traditions
... a classic case of community-based improvement and conservation of an Indigenous livestock germplasm.
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How Forest-Dwelling Communities are Braving the Pandemic
Local communities and gram sabhas better understand the local complexities than local administrations while dealing with a crisis
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Reimagining Wellbeing: Villages opening spaces for Self-Governance
resisting mining ... and moving towards social, political, economic and ecological transformation
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Uttarakhand’s draft ecotourism policy could threaten biodiversity
This draft policy is framed in a way that it leaves almost all the power with bureaucrats
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Ecotourism in Uttarakhand: pioneer Manohar Singh Manral (conversation in Hindi)
लोग सोचें कि जंगली जानवर मेरे ही खेत में आ जाएं !
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Ecology is for the People
Democracy is - citizens governing the country at all levels, most importantly in our gram sabhas and ward sabhas.
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Forest Rights Act and Conservation in Korchi
The Forest Rights Act has changed the lives of hundreds of people, helping them to protect their forests and increase their incomes
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Gond children learn to conserve forests
They took an oath to protect their forest. After several discussions, residents of all the adjacent villages agreed to protect the forest.