For Environment, Democracy and Livelihoods
Protected areas and rights movements: the inadequacies of Nepal’s participatory conservation.
After the major political change with the end of Maoist insurgency in 2006, Nepal is undergoing a state restructuring. The governance of natural resources – land, forest and water – was one the key contentious issues highlighted during the Maoist rebellion, the people’s movement in 2006 and numerous ethnic and regional movements that followed. Due to the heavy reliance of rural people for their livelihoods on natural resources and the intimate cultural link of local populace with the natural environment, access to and control over these resources is of vital importance. Nepal’s ‘ Protected Areas’ (PAs) occupy over a quarter of county’s land mass that includes productive land, rich forests, biodiversity, wildlife and sources of water. Consequently, the governance of PAs is one of the important political agendas….
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