Past experiences have shown that centralized management of natural resources, based on a culture of exclusion and rules, has not contributed to the sustainable management of natural resources.
This book outlines the first alternative management plan proposed for the protecte areas of India. It provides both a general mode of community forest management in protected areas, and specific proposals for implementation in the proposed Rajaji national park.
Chief Election Commissioner T N Seshan has sent a missive to district administrations instructing them to register various communities which hitherto had been left out of electoral and census lists
The presence of Gujjars in the Rajaji National Park could be responsible for the significant increase in elephant numbers in the past four years, wildlife observers claim. According to them, the
WHEN GUJJAR Zahur Hussain got into a trifling argument with a forestry official who was on his way to a temple in the Rajaji National Park, little did he expect what followed. That evening the
