IN NEWS (March 21, 2011)

Show sincere will to save forests

Published: Monday, Mar 21, 2011, 8:47 IST
By Praveen Bhargav | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_show-sincere-will-to-save-forests_1522363

India government: forest target 'unrealistic'
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
March 20, 2011

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0320-hance_india_forests.html

In Kalakad forests, a project to bring out amphibian ecology

P. Sudhakar

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article1556345.ece?homepage=true

Whale shark tagged with satellite collar off Gujarat coast

PTI

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article1558068.ece?homepage=true

Locals to help protect Great Indian Bustards

TNN, Mar 21, 2011, 02.27am IST

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-21/pune/29171111_1_locals-great-indian-bustard-gib-sanctuary

Last stand of the Asian elephant

Published March 20, 2011

| Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/20/stand-asian-elephant/

Fire at Pallikaranai marsh sparks calls for handing it over to forest dept

Arun Janardhanan, TNN, Mar 20, 2011, 11.56pm IST

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-20/chennai/29148369_1_bird-sanctuary-ranjit-daniels-pallikaranai-marsh

Can gender sensitive participatory forestry programme increase women's income?: Lessons from forest-based rural society in Indian province

Nimai Das
RBI Research Officer of Economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), R-1 Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata, India

Abstract

The study suggests that the gender sensitive planning for rural community driven forest management programme is favorable on the way to increase women's income on the one hand, and reduction of their time to engage in searching forest produces alongside augmentation of the involvement in ancillary tasks such as processing of forest produces on the other, based on a pragmatic evidence of that province of India wherein pioneer attempt of participatory forestry movement as well as its gender sensitive measure in the countryside were taken place. Notably, the women in the villages of female-headed local forest management unit are the major contributor to their family income, which they merely receive from forest source after initiating the programme.

http://rsj.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/20/issue/2/article/4033/can-gender-sensitive-participatory-forestry