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Tag: India
Illegal evictions of Baiga indigenous people from India’s Kanha National Park
India: Almost 40,000 people were evicted in the name of conservation in 2017
November 2017 in Kaziranga National Park: Rhino killings, arrests, an IUCN upgrade, and the threat of a bioethanol refinery
NGOs Call On UNESCO to Protect Sundarbans From Proposed Coal-fired Power Plant
India’s Kaziranga national park and the Streisand effect
BBC banned from filming in Kaziranga and all of India’s tiger reserves for five years
WWF’s role in Kaziranga National Park’s shoot to kill anti-poaching policy
Open letter requesting that India’s Forest Rights Act is implemented and its integrity upheld
When India’s Forest Rights Act was passed in 2006, it was intended support the rights of communities to live in and from their forests. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 legally recognised the right of communities to manage forests and their land.
