The State of Wildlife and Protected Areas in Maharashtra

2012

‘Biodiversity Conservation’ is replete with conflicts and controversies, flooded with questions and questioned belief systems, and punctuated with prejudice and pain. This paper presents a study of the values behind the biodiversity conservation in India, which manifests itself widely through the national network of Protected Areas (PAs). We asked whether there was a bias towards setting up protected areas in particular regions such as hilly and tribal areas both for the current, and proposed protected area network. The results point towards a specific tendency in the establishment of PAs in tribal and hilly districts of India. This propensity will be more prominent if current the proposals are implemented and the complete network of PAs assumes full shape. Investigation of the infl uence of the state’s wealth in these decisions reveals a higher propensity of protection in the tribal and hill districts in wealthy states than in poorer states. It cannot be deduced statistically whether more protection is results from states’ wealth or vice-versa as the detailed figures for each district’s wealth are unavailable. Nevertheless, this stresses the need to understand the intricate relationship between the social, political and ecological dimensions of the conservation practice in this densely populated country. If the IUCN target of 10% of the nation in protected areas is to be achieved with attention to justice, the implications of protected areas on marginalized people must be understood.

Biological Conservation, 2019

Traditional and contemporary protected areas for wildlife conservation in Meghalaya, India, 2023

Traditional ways of protection and conservation of wildlife, forests and all the natural resources have been suppressed by colonialism, industrialization and a new knowledge system resulting in the biodiversity loss. Then came the new concept of "protected areas" for the conservation and protection of wildlife after the establishment of first National Park, Yellowstone, US in 1872. Even then the threats to wildlife remained or rather increased in a newer form of poaching, habitat disturbances, etc. The model of human-exclusivity (National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries, Reserved Forest) is being met with several challenges, favouring the creation of more human-inclusive protected areas that were traditionally present (before establishment of first National Park in 1872) and are now left in a few places like in the State of Meghalaya, due to the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Meghalaya has both, traditional and contemporary methods of forest management and wildlife conservation and protection. This study clearly indicates that human-inclusive methods (that is traditional forest management) of wildlife and nature conservation need to be maintained and incorporated along with the contemporary methods of wildlife conservation.

The process of aJi enatJmz the forest dwellers from the ir sustenance began in th~ colonial age and continued aft.er independe~ce. Planned deve lopment launched in 195 1 concentrated on the building nf an industriaJ base without questioning the colonial pa t1em of tkwlopment. When India needed a development model that could create jobs and a llev iate povrrty of cVL:r) segment of soc iety, the model chosen was heavy industry, high im·estment and sophisticated technolo~ based. requiring extensive exploitation of the natural and mineral resources. It thus became an attack on the livelihood of the communities that had sustained themselves till t!ien on the commo n property resources (CPRs). Their aliena.tion from the CPRs that the colonial forest and lund laws had sta.ned got intensified in the name of planned development with no alternatin~ provided to lhcm.

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2019

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology

This audit features the significant issues about untamed life annihilation, peril and protection. It is important to know Current situation about untamed life insurance and preservation at national and global level. Living space protection is the key answer for preserve biodiversity. Parcel of endeavors has been done to support forestation and reduction deforestation and practices has been done in numerous territories. Also by disheartening the pet exchanges, over shooting just as chasing by applying various banes, marine contamination by various laws and guidelines, and open mindfulness are the primary concerns.

Metal figurines from the Roman age from San Giorgio di Valpolicella The paper deals with some attractive archaeological acquisitions relating to the site of San Giorgio di Valpolicella due to the reorganization and recovery of ancient objects aimed at setting up the Roman section of the National Archaeological Museum of Verona, currently underway. These objects are metal figurines from the Roman age: from Casaletti, the site already known for interesting findings from the Iron Age (the “house of sortes” and a house-laboratory), a bronze figure identifiable as Apollo, without context but datable for stylistic reasons to the late Republican period and therefore about a still little-known phase of a small bronze sculpture of the Cisalpine; from the stips discovered in 1964 at Il Cristo (with several dozen votive terracottas of gods, devotees, animals), some fragmentary figurines in lead (macroscopic identifi cation), which are added to those already published, expanding the number of deities represented in metal in this place of worship and increasing the already rich panorama of the sacred of the site of San Giorgio, considered the religious capital of the Arusnates.