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Missing the woods for the trees? [1]

Tourism must be seen in the context of the rights of all stakeholders. More and reliable data is needed to understand whether tourism is harmful to tigers or that people living in the forests have caused the decline in the tigers' population. The more central issue of the implementation of the Forest Rights Act and the rights of adivasis and forest dwellers is being lost in the battle about tourism.

Publication Date: 
08/09/2012
Swathi Seshadri [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
47
36
12-14
Tags:
Ecotourism [4], Poverty [5], Wildlife Tourism [6], Tiger Reserves [7], Madhya Pradesh [8], High Court [9], Supreme Court [10], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [11], Protected Area Conservation [12], Forest Rights Act 2006 [13], Cost Benefit Analysis [14], Benefit Sharing [15], Poaching [16], Wildlife Management [17], Bandhavgarh NP [18], Kanha TR [19]
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tiger-reserves
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/high-court
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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-rights-act-2006
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cost-benefit-analysis
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/benefit-sharing
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/poaching
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife-management
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bandhavgarh-np
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