People, Parks and Wildlife: Towards Co-existence
Bibliography B1114
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| Author(s) | Saberwal, V. Rangarajan, M. Kothari, A. |
| Date | 2000 |
| Reference type | Book |
| Pages | 143 pp. |
| Publisher | Orient Longman, New Delhi |
Summary
The ideology of conservation in India today faces a crisis. Nature lovers, photographers, tourists continue to flock to National Parks, hoping to see the Ranthambor tigers and Bharatpur birds. Forest officials congratulate themselves on increase in the numbers of threatened species. But all is not well. Poachers, supported by politicians and sheltered by local communities, still raid the protected areas. Alienated resident communities around the parks, deprived of their access to natural resources and hostile to conservation, clash with officials. Tigers and elephants confined within restricted areas often attack and kill villagers. This tract traces the roots of such problems to the very ideology of conservation in India, discussing its historical and conceptual basis. The tract argues a need to integrate resident people in the process of conservation and asserts that only through a participatory policy can local hostility be overcome, and local knowledge and resources be mobilised.
Themes
Protected areas
Geographic coverage
India
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