India Community Protected Areas

Community protected areas of the project areas of Foundation for This map shows the community protected areas of Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) in different States. It provides the details on the protection, tenure type, village institution, extent of area being protected, agency supporting the protection etc.

An attempt has been made by FES to map these community protected areas using GPS and GIS to begin with its own project locations. The larger agenda is to campaign for documenting these community efforts systematically partnering with other agencies, individuals, academia etc. in this effort. IBP is a good platform to participate and contribute towards this and document the rich protection and conservation efforts of the communities.

This is a participatory map where in the users are requested to contribute by providing information or mapping on line the areas being protected by the community with definite rules and regulations and with proof of protection.In India, there are thousands of village communities across the country protecting and improving the vegetation and biodiversity on forest lands and other common lands thereby contributing significantly to improving and maintaining the forests in the country. However, lack of information on such efforts has meant that their importance in the conservation of the ecological base of our country has not received adequate mention. The other fall out of this lack of official sanction to these important efforts is that data related to it is not being gathered in a consistent manner across the country. Thus, we do not clearly know the extent of such efforts or the changes in them over a period of time.

http://www.fes.org.in
http://www.kalpavriksh.org
http://www.iucn.org


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