Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Rights Act.

Citation:

Broome, N.P., Rai, N.D. and Tatpati, M. 2017. Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Rights Act. Economic & Political Weekly 50 (25&26):51-54.

Authors:

Broome, N.P., Rai, N.D. and Tatpati, M.

Other Details:

Economic & Political Weekly 50 (25&26):51-54.

Several wildlife groups have opposed the Forest Rights Act as being anti-conservation. However, field experience indicates that the act can and is being used by local communities for arresting biodiversity decline by opposing the diversion of forests to mega-development projects and by using situated knowledge and values to bring about conservation.

Programme:

Landscape, Livelihoods and Conservation

Full Text URL:

https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/25-26/special-issues/biodiversity-conservation-and-forest-rights-act.html

Year of publication:

07.2017

People:

Nitin D Rai

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