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In the 19th century British colonial administrators in India took control of vast areas of forestland, which they subsequently exploited through the Imperial Forest Service. A good part of this forestland had originally been managed communally in accordance with local rules and regulations. With the coming of the British Raj (colonial rule), conflicts broke out between rural populations...
For almost seventy years now Bulgaria develops its protected area system. During the period 1990-1996 the largest Bulgarian parks were declared - Rila, Central Balkan and Strandja, and some of the mountain natural reserves were enlarged. Thus, to the 1.5% of the Bulgarian territory, which was protected at that time, another 3% were added and at present the system covers 4.5% of the country's...
The author once was asked the question whether walkers need farmers where his answer was yes; his basic argument: a sane approach to agriculture means a more diversified landscape plus more people on the land, and therefore better infrastructure - public transport, places to eat and sleep. Hillwalkers benefit from taking an interest in rural development.
Over the years, his basic...
Many of Mexico's rural communities are settled in the highest reaches of their regions, relegated to the marginal areas that the wealthier or more powerful were willing to cede or unable to defend during decades of agrarian redistribution. Peasants attempt to survive on lands impoverished by erosion or with stands of trees thinned by the demands of a voracious forest-products industry and the...
San Jose, Costa Rica - Ricardo Rodriguez sits at a picnic table inside the national park he manages and watches the blue Pacific pounding the sickle-shaped beach. Nearby, a white-faced monkey searches for food scraps, while an iguana lolls in the sun. Visitors awed by the natural beauty of Manuel Antonio National Park and Costa Rica's other spectacular wilderness areas don't understand how...
The 1992 Canada National Forest Strategy (CNFS) represents the most recent attempt at achieving a national forest policy. In the Strategy, federal and provincial governments adopt the concept of sustainable forestry and commit themselves to a new relationship with aboriginal peoples (First Nations). The goal of this relationship is to increase the participation of First Nations in forest land...
Himalayan snow and glaciers are apex natural water resource reservoirs and release large quantity of freshwater year round. Their ultrahigh altitudes attract moisture from Indian, Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans. The uplift of the mountains have given birth to Indian Monsoon. Their rugged topographic features modify weather systems at all scales of space and time. Meltwater releases...
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