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The main forest management strategy of Nepal, community forestry, is based on people's participation and was formally introduced in 1978. Under the community forestry structure, local people make decisions regarding forest management, utilisation, and distribution of benefits from a forest; they are organised as a Community Forest User Group (CFUG). Presently, about 1 million...
To celebrate the UN-declared International Year of the Mountains in 202, countries around the world carried out a myriad of governmental and non-governmental sponsored activities. These ranged from mountain food, music and film festivals to bicycle tours and mountaineering climbs, to conferences, symposia, and workshops. There were also several major international events, mainly of the...
Land management is a multi-dimensional and multi-institutional engagement that demands collective analysis, design, and implementation of innovations. Its importance for Ethiopia cannot be overemphasised, as land degradation threatens food security and environmental sustainability. Building on a specific case study of a project in Southern Ethiopia, the present article...
Leykun Abune, Program Coordinator, Simen Mountains Integrated Development Program, faces the dual challenge of depleted animal and vegetal genetic resources and increasing rural poverty in the Simen Mountains National Park.
The area surrounding Mount Kangchenjunga in the eastern Himalayas is spread across four countries: Nepal, India, Bhutan, and China. It includes many protected areas—of particular interest to mountain overs—that are still unexplored. However, these protected areas are islands that are facing degradation through a number of activities, the latest of which is tourism. The pressures on...
The Albanian Alps are encountered in the most northern part of Albania and have very clear-cut boundaries representing the highest and most beautiful regions of this country. Regarding the physical and geographical viewpoint, the Albanian Alps border with the Drini valley (Fierzë, Vau i Dejës) in the south, the Tropoja basin in the east and northeast and the Mbishkodra plain in the...
The iconic summer tourism destination in the Australian Alps National Parks is the summit area of continental Australia’s highest mountain, Mt Kosciuszko. Currently 70,000 people visit the alpine area during the snow-free period each year, and about 21,000 of these take a day-walk to the summit and back. The environmental impacts of summer tourism include: soil compaction and erosion;...
Africa is home to an exceptional diversity of biological species and ecosystems, having the world’s second largest tropical rainforests, large freshwater and mountain ecosystems and six of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots. In Africa, however, a large part of the population directly depends on the environment and natural resources for their livelihoods. Loss or depletion of...
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