Forests

Village common forests in Chittagong hill tracts, Bangladesh: balance between conservation and exploitation

Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as one of the forest poor countries in the world, is continuously struggling to conserve its forest resources.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
& et al, Mohammed Abdul Baten, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Ronju Ahammad
Unnayan Onneshan-The Innovators
Tags:
Forests, Bangladesh, Forest Conservation, Common Property Resources, Forest Villages, Forest Resources, Forest Management
Wildlife

C'garh: Tiger project hit by Maoist trouble

RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY
The tiger project Nov.

Publication Date: 
30/11/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger, Chhattisgarh, Naxalites, Forest Villages, Displacement, Wildlife And People
Wildlife

Over 200 tribal families to be evicted from Dampa Tiger Reserve

AIZAWL, Sept 27: The extension of Dampa Tiger Reserve in Mamit district in western belt of Mizoram is going to displace as many as 227 tribal families

Publication Date: 
28/09/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Dampa SA, Tiger Reserves, Tribals, Wildlife, Mamit (D), Forest Villages
Forests

Community participation and forest policies in India - An overview

Community participation emerged as the defining principle of forest policies all over the world in the closing decades of the last century. In India, this came about after the Indian forest policies went through different stages from largely commercial-centric to a community-oriented approach.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2010
Dinesh Pratap
Social Change
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3
235
Tags:
Forest Policy, Public Participation, India, Forest Management, Forest Act 1988, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Forest Villages, Forest Rights Act 2006, Tribals, Forests
Forests

Implement Forest Act, says CPI(ML)

Stage demonstration in front of Krishnagiri Collectorate

Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) stage a demonstration demanding the implementation of Forest Act in front of the Krishnagiri Collectorate on Monday.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2010
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Forest Rights Act 2006, Forest Villages, Forests
Wildlife

Tiger conservation fund set up to help local communities

Publication Date: 
07/08/2010
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Tiger Conservation, Wildlife, Tiger Reserves, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Forest Villages
Forests

Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the Western Ghats region of Kerala

This study of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in the Western Ghats of Kerala identifies the main constraints to the working of the legislation. Community rights and conservation provisions seem to be ignored.

Publication Date: 
24/07/2010
Jyothis Sathyapalan
Economic and Political Weekly
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30
65
Tags:
Forests, Land Ownership, Western Ghats, Forest Management, Forest Villages, Forest Rights Act 2006, Deforestation, Minor Forest Produce, Tribals, Poverty, Panchayats, Kerala
Forests

390 displaced families wait for rehabilitation

Though 390 families leading their lives in Kudremukh National Park limits are ready to vacate their land and leave, they allege that Government has not yet come up with any alternative facilities to rehabilitate them.

Publication Date: 
22/06/2010
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Villages, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Kudremukh NP, Karnataka, Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Wildlife

400 families to be relocated from tiger reserve

NEW DELHI: The government has granted Rs. 25 crore for relocating 181 Gujjar families from the core regions of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.

To avoid conflicts

Over a period of time, a total of 400 families would be relocated to avoid man-animal conflicts in the reserve, a release by the Ministry of Environment and Forests said.

Publication Date: 
22/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forest Villages, Wildlife, Corbett NP, Tiger Reserves, People - Animal Conflicts, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Hindu (New Delhi)
Forests

Rehabilitation package for Buxa Tiger Reserve villagers

Ananya Dutta

West Bengal Government offers two new packages

KOLKATA: The West Bengal Government announced a rehabilitation package for relocation of villagers living within the core forest area of the Buxa Tiger Reserve here on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
16/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Forests, Forest Villages, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Buxa SA, West Bengal, Hindu (New Delhi)

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