Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
MAPS are no longer the exclusive forte of cartographers. Ordinary tribals the world over have begun using mapping techniques to emphasise that they exist. "More indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns. As a corollary, more indigenous territory can be reclaimed and defended by maps than by …
PROMOTING the cause of sustainable development and spreading environmental awareness in the Asian and Pacific regions, formed the main agenda of the three-day United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) workshop held in Madras, India. The workshop, which began on December 12, also discussed the strategy framed by the Regional Office for …
Allegations of corruption and influencepeddling dog the ambitious us $1.4 billion surveillance project aimed to protect the Brazilian rain forest. The Integrated Amazon Vigilance System or Sivam, as it is known, was announced with much fanfare earlier and the contract was awarded to the Massachusetts-based Raytheon Company in the US. …
The state of forest report 1995 is the fifth assessment of the forest cover of the country pertaining to the period 1991-93. It is for the first time that the data obtained from the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite has been used by the Forest Survey of India for this assessment. …
Fencing the Forest: Conservation and Ecological Change in India's Central Provinces 1860-1914 draws on archival and printed sources to shed new light on the ecological dimensions of the colonial impact on South Asia. The changing responses of rural forest users and the fortunes of the land they lived on are …
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of revolutionary changes occurring in the management of India's forests. It also explores the historical roots of deforestat-ion, the alienation of tribal peoples, and their reentry into resource management. The institutional, economic, ecological, and political implications of this historic transition in forest control …
ABOUT five krn off the one-time tourist spot, Kangan, on the S'rinagar-Leh highway etched out in one of Kashmir's several semi-denuded hills, there is hectic activity. Downhill, a platoon of the 11 th sector of the Indian Army's Rashtriya Rifles (RR) unit, armed with sub-machine guns and a rocket launcher, …
MENDHA. A small adivasi village tucked away in the interior of Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. In this nondescript village, the residents have raised the revolutionary banner of Mava nate mava raj (Our rule in our villages) - with the help of some outside 'friends- and waged a war with the authorities …
Ecologist N V C Polunin argues that protected areas are an extreme form of conservation, and that other forms of regulated area management may be more appropriate for the management needs of local development. In fact, future conservation could be based predominantly on those categories of proteced areas which accept …
D Southgate and H L Clark pointed out that "the present conservation paradigm, was "an attempt to transplant national parks, a rich country institution, to an alien setting", and that 'traditionally, defined, a park is a natural area where no people ... live or work". Using the example of the …
There are several international systems for designating protected areas. The most widely used is that of International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) management categories. which include eight classes: (I) Scientific Reserve/Strict Nature Reserve; (II) National Park; (III) Natural Monument/Natural Landmark; (IV) Managed Nature Reserve/Wildlife Sanctuary; (V) Protected Landscape …
SANTOSH MOHANTY: Social Research Development Council, Mayurbhanj BABA PANSARE: Parivartan Prabodhini, Pune AVDESH KAUSHAL: Rural Entitlement Litigation Kendra, Dehradun ALLAN WARNER: independant researcher, Dehradun SUNITA NARAIN: Deputy Director, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi NALIN JENA: Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi FARHAD VANIA: research scholar, Coirnbatore RAMAN MEHTA: …
IT HAS to be done, but let others do it: that is the attitude of the wealthy, developed countries regarding conservation of global natural resources. The overall global balance has to be maintained, so they are pushing the Southern countries to adopt Otheir own model of policed conservation in "nature …
AN EXTRA inch or kilogram is proving to be a real bottleneck for those us astronauts wanting to hitch a ride aboard Soyuz, the Russian spacecraft. They are either too short, too tall, too fat or too thin, much to the us-based NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) discomfort. Three …
The Sri Lankan forestry industry is in for a massive improvement with tIle Asian Development Bank approving a $60 million loan and $400,000 technical assistance granrecently. The grants will help the government to initiate reforms in the management of 23 regional plantation conipanies to increase productivity and global competitiv ness. …
BORN in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku, Japan, Masanobu Fukuoka was trained as an inspector. Soon, he began questioning the accomplishments of modern civilisation. In 1945, after being discharged from the Imperial Army, he returned to the village lyo and chose to farm. Natural farming is …
K Bikram Singh will soon be relating another tale about the regeneration of barren land in his new film. He has earlier made two films on the same subject: Rebirth and Jhilmil. This yet untitled film is about the success of natural regeneration in Datia, Madhya Pradesh. According to Singh, …
Amazon apocalypse For the handful of surviving Yanomami tribals left in the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil and Venezuela, the recent moves to end their rights over their home - the forests - could very well sound their death knell From June this year the pressure started building on both sides …
The mythical univer5e of the Yanomami i5 extremely complex. U5ing it5 ideal5, 5haman (prie5t) David Yanomami from Demeni village gave a moving te5timony of the trauma hi5 people are going through a5 a re5ult of the invasion of their land5. In hi5 test imony to anthropologi5t Bruce Albert in 1990, …
The Yanomami are not the only tribal communities among Brazil's Indians facing a dark future. The Guarani Kaiowa Indians in the state of Mato Grosso do Sui are showing signs of mass frustration, and incidence of suicides among them have shot up recently. The figure of 30 suicides this year …
