Communities and Critical Corridors: Maintaining Landscape Connectivity in the Southern Western Ghats through Collaborative Approaches
Grantee Name: World Wide Fund for Nature
- Hotspot
- Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
- Location
- India
- Amount
- $199,977
- Dates
- Jun 2010 – Nov 2015
- Keywords
- Access and Benefit Sharing, Community-based conservation, Indigenous People, Non-timber Forest Products (incl. fuelwood), Protected Areas
Take advantage of recent legislative changes to secure community rights to forest resources and establish new models of community-based conservation areas covering 30,000 ha. Facilitate the formal establishment of these areas, and strengthen the local institutions necessary to manage them. Develop participatory resource use, management and monitoring plans for the areas, as well as alternative livelihood options for local people.
1 Enable action by diverse communities and partnerships to ensure conservation of key biodiversity areas and enhance connectivity in the corridors
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