conservation
Conservation of protected areas is traditionally seen as a task of governmental bodies, park management or other implemented bodies. Local communities are perceived as a body that should be educated how to live with conservation measures, as many of measures interfere with their daily activities and properties. The third party is visitors whose needs collide quite often with those of...
Management of Natural Resources in mountain areas inhabited by traditional societies has been experimenting technological and market pressures which in many cases have affected sustainable livelihoods. Impacts of new agricultural technologies and crops, indiscriminate use of agrochemicals, new forms of labor organization, increased pressure from city markets, among others are changing...
A unique part of West Virginia's natural heritage is bursting into life in the Allegheny Mountains. In the rest of the state, spring is well underway, but in the high elevation wetlands, frost may still cover the ground as the earth wakes. Cold air drainage from the surrounding slopes collects in these high basins, known as "frost pockets". Many plants and animals that normally...
The strategies and methodologies in current practice aimed at achieving sustainable, participatory conservation are inadequately developed, and their implications are poorly understood by policy makers, managers and communities among other user groups. Possibilities of conflict and jurisdictional overlap exist. Institutional arrangements and policy instruments that facilitate the alleviation...
This report is based on the external evaluation of the Mount Elgon Integrated Conservation and Development Project carried out from 29 January to 16 February 2001 by a team of three independent consultants. The evaluation included interviews at the national level and a field visit to the project area of nine days. The report explores the context in which the project is carried out, and...
"My vision is to one day step out on the front porch in the morning and see the sun rising through the balsam fir that is growing again in Blister Swamp".John Dalen, November, 1998
The 1998 vision of the private landowner in mountainous Pocahontas County, WV will most likely become a reality within the next 10 years, thanks to co-financing from the National Fish and...
On 26 March 1999, a quarter of a century will be over since a group of women in the Reni forests of Garhwal Himalaya succeeded in chasing away timber felling contractors. In course of time this event became a milestone in the evolution of the world famous Chipko movement. An impressive and useful bibliography on the literature around the movement has also developed since then. A number of...
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