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Legal Initiative for Resource Management and Livelihood Development for Jisha Village

Grantee Name: Center for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge

Hotspot
Mountains of Southwest China
Location
China
Amount
$20,000
Dates
Mar 2005 – Dec 2007
Keywords
Community-based conservation, Indigenous People, Tourism

Empower the local community, whose traditional livelihood and religious practices are heavily embedded in alpine pasture and forest, to prevent unsustainable construction of infrastructure for ecotourism development and increase the participatory management of natural resources in Jisha village, Yunnan province in southwest China.

Strategic Direction :

3 Build capacity of civil society to implement conservation efforts at a site and regional level

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