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To the Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia, the Sierra is 'the heart of the world'. One man is at the centre of effort to restore that heart to good health.
The Kogi Indians believe the Sierra moves between good and evil, between day and night, between south and north, searching for equilibrium, says Juan Mayr, founder and director of the...
One of the last truly wild places in Guatemala is a two-mile-tall, 30-mile-wide, east-west mountain range that runs for roughly 100 miles through the country's southeast highlands. The mountains encompass parts of the Baja Verapaz and Izabal departments, beginning about 50 air miles east of Guatemala City.
Saving the ecologically dynamic wilderness of the rugged Sierra de las...
In a flurry of activity over the last 18 months, Pakistani administrators have established three new high mountain national parks in the Northern Areas. Previously there was only one, the Khunjerab National Park, established in 1975.
The governmental action to bring more areas under protection, under the aegis of the Northern Areas Wildlife Act of 1975, seems directed...
Nepal became the focus of growing international concern in the 1970s, when it appeared that the Himalayan foothills were being rapidly eroded due to the increasing pressure of population growth. A large-scale, internationally financed reforestation project was subsequently launched in an attempt to halt the progress of degradation. The project achieved good results in the village of Panchamool...
Forestry means the life. All of them have an important job to do - safe the water, safe the same life. By the way quite special role perform mountain juniper forests (archa as many Central Asian's people, call them). No one tree do not penetrate so high in the mountains, no one do not bear terrible drought, no one suffer for a cause of the safe life in the mountains and on the great lowland...
This paper outlines some of the issues raised in the first six months of a project working to develop guidelines for the participatory monitoring of community forest resources in Thailand. These include uncertainty about the incentives for motivation, particularly in the face of mistrust between communities and local authorities, and a question mark over the relative merits of 'western' versus...
India is a country of vast dimensions and presents a rare diversity of situations - people, flora, and fauna. Indian settlements, their psychocutural and biophysical conditions bear a strong imprint of their history. The historical past has a direct bearing on the current access to and control over its resources. Currently, abysmal levels of poverty, the near total...
For centuries, China's holy mountains were protected by Taoist and Buddhist and the respect of the pilgrims who visited them. Now, in the face of growing tourist and business pressures, a new effort is being made to save them from destruction.
To climb some of the great and ancient sacred mountains of China is to risk life and limb. Not just because some of them, like Hua Shan in...
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