India: biodiversity conservation and rural livelihood improvement project - draft executive summary

  • 31/03/2009

  • Ministry of Environment and Forests

Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India proposes to embark on a project, namely, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project (BCRLIP), at two sites of global and national biodiversity importance in the country. BCRLIP signals a paradigm shift from hitherto Protected Area (PA) conservation approaches, wherein PAs were largely managed as