Nagaland Tourism Policy, 2024
The Government of Nagaland on March 14, 2024, notified the Nagaland Tourism Policy, 2024. In order to implement programmes of the infrastructural development, strengthening promotion and marketing efforts
Ecotourism
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Boom
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Terrain forbids sprawl as in cities in the plains; <font color=red>Status:</font> Alarming population density people per sq km ; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Policy question is: decongest, but how?
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Icy hot destination
What s a non scientific visit to Antarctica like? Uncommon privilege, says <font class='UCASE'>urmi popat</font>
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Conflict in Paradise: Women and Protected Areas in the Indian Himalayas
The unique assemblages of flora and fauna in the Himalayan region make it one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the Indian subcontinent. Seventy-five protected areas (PAs) encompassing 9.48% of the region have been created to conserve this biodiversity and the fragile Himalayan landscape.
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Co-existence good for people and wildlife, conservationist says
As a young man, David Western spent four years herding cattle and goats with red-robed Masai tribesmen in the Kenyan bush. There, he found something remarkable. While cattle grazing is believed to lead to deforestation and the destruction of wildlife, Western learned what the Masai already knew: his cattle fertilized the land and actually improved its diversity.
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Opening up, but tread softly...
April 2003 saw two diverse regions in India take a similar decision. Both partially opened the door to tourism in hitherto protected belts. One is a high altitude state; the other a union territory is an archipelago of 348 islands. Just like their dis
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Does government know one ecotourism from another?
<font class="UCASE">is the </font> Andaman Works Department (<font class="UCASE">awd</font>) an expert body on eco-tourism?
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FORESTS: Losing its soul
status: Five per cent of the state's forests are degrading every year potential: Regeneration of the degraded forests can create 120 million humandays of employment strategy: Open up the
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Peace isn't elusive
Kashmir s economy is nothing but a sensitive and organised use of its ecology. After 15 years of living under the shadow of the gun, finally, when hope is making a comeback in the state, Kashmir will have to turn to its immense environmental resources to
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The return of the unicorns: the natural history and conservation of the greater one horned rhinoceros
The return of the unicorns is an account of what it takes to save endangered large mammals.
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Drying up
Twin crises in the Sundarbans: depleting fish stocks and marginalized fisherfolk