The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve boasts of many endemic species, rare and endangered flora and fauna, landscapes of outstanding scenic beauty with its expanses of grass-covered rolling hills, valleys, rivers, waterfalls and small forests. The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was the first biosphere reserve in India established in the year 1986. It is located in the Western […]

Biosphere reserves are ‘learning places for sustainable development’. They are sites for testing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and managing changes and interactions between social and ecological systems, including conflict prevention and management of biodiversity. Biosphere reserves bring together life in all its diversity in a unique model in which people develop a sense of responsibility

Wildlife Conservation in India, like wild animals everywhere, now faces the threat of human pressure. And for India, the ready exploitation of her natural resources by humans is a long standing challenge. From time immemorial until very recently, wild life faced the threat of hunting and poaching because of wanton insensibility to all creatures other

Farm forestry is a term applied to the process under which farmers grow trees on their farm lands for commercial and non-commercial purposes. The main objective of growing trees commercially on farms is to provide an additional revenue stream to farmers, while at the same time protecting the environment. Forest departments of various states distribute

Social Forestry is the combination of conservation of natural resources and production oriented social forestry for addressing livelihood problems of rural people. Social forestry means the management and protection of forests and afforestation on barren lands with the purpose of helping in the environmental, social and rural development. The National Commission on Agriculture (1976) has