Wildlife

Protected areas and human displacement: A conservation perspective

Decisions that affect how people use land are among the most fraught that any enlightened society has to grapple with. Two claims that typically come out on the short end of the land-use debate are the claims of indigenous people and claims for non-human species.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2007
Kent H. Redford, Eva Fearn
Wildlife Conservation Society
Tags:
Mining, Forest Fires, Biomass, Displacement, Wildlife, Hunting, Protected Area Conservation, Kudremukh NP, Bhadra SA, People - Animal Conflicts, Africa, Asia, South America, Karnataka, Nagarhole NP
Industry

 Tree fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Ahad Miah has come a long way from his tree felling days. He is now one of the custodians of the Lauachhara protected forest, working shoulder to shoulder with government appointed forest guards.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
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Forest Conservation, Forest Personnel, Protected Area Conservation, Bangladesh, Sustainable Development
Environment

 Why not fishing?

Precedent for activities allowed inside protected areas >> Supreme Court (SC) permitted Power Grid Corporation of India to lay a transmission line in Rajaji National Park, Uttaranchal. The order

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Deforestation, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Sanctuaries, Supreme Court, India
India

 Power projects fragment Western Ghats

Praveen Bhargav The Western Ghats is recognised as a global biodiversity hotspot. In the past, many large development projects including highways, railway lines, mega dams, nuclear plants and

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
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Air Pollution Control, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Western Ghats, Small Hydro Power, Wind Energy, Turbines, Birds, Protected Area Conservation, Subsidies, India
India

 Cochin needs to preserve its green lungs

Documentary

Publication Date: 
27/02/2007
S V Suresh Babu
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Mangroves, Birds, Migratory Species, Protected Area Conservation, Sanctuaries, Cinema, India, Kerala, Kochi
Air Pollution

 Government makes Bushmen's return to forests difficult

In December 2006, Botswana's Bushmen won legal rights to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (See

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Kalahari, Forest Villages, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, Botswana
Wildlife

Background on global conservation evictions

A global background on global conservation evictions.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2007
First Peoples Worldwide
Tags:
Displacement, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Wildlife And People, Global
Industry

 Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve

Botswana's autochthonous Bushmen (or the San people) have won legal rights to return to their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after the High Court of Botswana ruled against

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
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Kalahari, Displacement, Tribals, Protected Area Conservation, High Court, Africa, Botswana
India

 Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

Kenya's Ogiek tribal people, one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in east Africa, have joined Botswana's San people (or Bushmen) in their fight against the government to allow them return to

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
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Tags:
Land Ownership, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Tourism, Botswana, Kenya
India

 SOUTH ASIA

Tracking the snow leopard: The life and habits of the elusive snow leopard will no longer be a mystery. For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a global positioning system (GPS)

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
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Tags:
Marine Ecosystems, Food Aid, Endangered Species, Conflicts, Vector Borne Diseases, Leopard, Protected Area Conservation, Remote Sensing, Information, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United States Of America (US), California

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