Given the fractured relationship between forest depts and forest-dwellers, involving tribal population in preparation of working plans is critical
Indira Rajaraman / New Delhi May 1, 2010, 0:30 IST
Given the badly fractured relationship between forest departments and forest-dwellers, involving the tribal population in the preparation of working plans is critical
The intricate, intertwined forces driving global climate change are mirrored by similar complexity in the human response to it. That makes it nearly impossible to anticipate the stance of any one group based solely on a label such as nationality, race, or economic class.
Forests provide a number of goods and services to the people. The dependence is very high especially amongst the tribals who live close to nature and collect food, fuelwood, timber, bamboos, medicinal plants and other non-wood products from the forests.
Booker Prize winning writer Arundhati Roy and British human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger were among a group of high-profile figures who lent their support to a protest held here outside the offices of the mining company, Vedanta Resources, demanding that it withdraw its plans to construct a massive bauxite mine in Orissa.
A comprehensive development plan costing Rs 2020.267 million has been launched to bring a maximum area under forest cover in the Fata. Out of this, Rs 453.97m is being spent during the current financial year.
Port Blair: Much to the cheers of Onges, an aboriginal tribe of Andaman and Nicobar Islands with only 92 members, a boy was born to the community at a hospital here, doctors said on Monday.
After Uttarakhand, it is the turn of the Himachal Pradesh government to stop Van Gujjars, nomadic tribals, from migrating to highland pastures in the state despite promulgation of the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act on January 1, 2008. A total of 432 Van Gujjar families comprising more than 1,000 members and thousands of milch animals are stranded. This year these tribals have been denied entry to their traditional grasslands in Shimla district.
Bamboos are potential bioresources of tangible and intangible values for humankind. Tropical and sub-tropical Indian forests and agrarian ecosystems harbour great species diversity of bamboos. Majority of bamboo species find favourable niche in the North-Eastern region of the country.
Protesters in the Amazon basin have forced Peru's state energy company to shut its crude oil pipeline, a company official said on Monday as the government tries to end weeks of demonstrations over natural resources.
