What’s Behind the Decline in India’s Tiger Population – and What Can Be Done About It?
1 BP said on August 10th, 2009 at 10:18 am The criticism made here of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, is incorrect. The act poses no threat to forest or wildlife conservation and is in many ways the biggest step forward for such measures, for it is the first law to apply some accountability to the massive forest bureaucracy that claims total control over India’s forests. The conservationists quoted here are all members of large heavily funded urban NGOs who work closely with the forest authorities and who are heavily invested in the forest bureaucracy. On the contrary, the biggest battles for protection of the environmen tin India today are not being fought by these types – who run away at the slightest sign of official wrath – but by communities in the affected areas who face both brutal police repression and attacks from forest authorities. See http://www.forestrightsact.com for more information on the Scheduled Tri
