India

 Rajasthan HC issues orders against encroachments in Ranthambore

all encroachments in the eco-sensitive zone around the Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan will be removed following a court order. The encroachments include residences, hotels and other

Publication Date: 
29/06/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Pollution Control, Ecotourism, Forest Encroachments, Forest Personnel, CNG, Petrol, Tiger, Ranthambore NP, Tiger Reserves, Tourism, High Court, Public Participation, India, Rajasthan, Hotels
Wildlife

India Eco Development Project: Project performance assessment report

The overall aim of the India Ecodevelopment Project, approved in 1996, was to conserve biological diversity in seven globally significant protected areas (PAS) by implementing an ecodevelopment strategy (prepared by the GOI).

Publication Date: 
26/06/2007
The World Bank
Tags:
Ecotourism, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Periyar NP, Ranthambore NP, Tiger Reserves, Wildlife And People, Benefit Sharing, Public Participation, Government Of India (GOI), World Bank, NGO, India
Environment

Las Gaviotas: Sustainability in the tropics

In the early 1970s, facing overwhelming obstacles, a young visionary named Paolo Lugari set out to build a sustainable village on los llanos, the remote plains of Colombia, some 500 kilometers east of the country

Publication Date: 
01/05/2007
Richard E. White, Gloria Eugenia Gonzalez Marino
World Watch
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Tags:
Environment, Forest Conservation, Afforestation, Renewable Energy, Carbon Sequestration, Benefit Sharing, Appropriate Technology, Personalities, Colombia, Sustainable Development, Ecotourism
India

 What the debate on Singur hasn't touched

A remarkable fact about the recent debate about Singur is that it is so much about land, and so little about cars. Yet a thousand acres of land is really not very much, given that the state has over

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Down to Earth
15
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Tags:
Ecotourism, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Coastal Development, Tsunami, Tourism, India, A & N Island
Hazardous Waste

Desert state makes tourism policy more flexible

Publication Date: 
02/02/2007
Tags:
Ecotourism
Environment

Eco-tourism policies and practices in India - A critical review

Over time the focus of travel and tourism has gone for eco-tourism. It is not true for India only but for the world too. The travel and tourism are major sources of foreign exchange earnings in India. The potential of employment opportunities in this sector has improved over time significantly, specially the indirect employment opportunities. Govt.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Vijay Kumar, J. S. Chouhan
Journal of Tropical Forestry
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100
Tags:
Environment, Unemployment, Government Of India (GOI), India, Ecotourism
Industry

 Tourism in Ranthambore is inimical to wildlife

After reading headlines about vanishing tigers in India, I decided to take my family to Ranthambore forest reserve in Rajasthan. I had visited the sanctuary 25 years ago

Publication Date: 
29/11/2006
Govindasamy Agoramoorthy
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Ecotourism, Tiger, Ranthambore NP, Tiger Reserves, India, Rajasthan
Industry

 Andaman & Nicobar opens 50 sites in 15 islands to enhance tourism

Andaman & Nicobar opens 15 islands to bidders

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
C Balaji
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecotourism, Tribals, A & N Island, Hotels
Wildlife

 One step forward, many steps back

Some recent amendments to the Wildlife Protection Act could infuse new life into a fusty act, but there are others that threaten to pull matters back

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
14
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Tags:
Ecotourism, Wildlife, Tiger, Research, Legislation, India, Karnataka
India

 Holy Hex

Divine wrath could put ski resort deal on ice

Publication Date: 
14/03/2006
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Ecotourism, Religious Places, Land Resources, Religious Beliefs, Himachal Pradesh, Kulu (D), Hotels

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