Showing papers on "Forest produce published in 2006"

Can Environmental Services Payments Sustain Collaborative Forest Management

Abstract: Collaborative forest management (CFM), where local communities and government agencies collectively manage forests, is anchored on the premise that the communities can protect and manage forests if their efforts in undertaking these tasks are compensated with resultant forest produce such as fuel, fodder, timber, and non-timber forest products. In marginally productive forests under such management, however, these benefits are meager. As a result, villagers' interest in CFM is short-lived. Although improved forest protection and ecological restoration are recognized as potentially delivering environmental services, there is little effort to assess them and little discussion on compensating local communities for rendering them. This paper documents the limited scope for on-site benefits to support CFM and explores opportunities for revitalizing it through a focus on payments for environmental services (PES). It concludes with the observation that PES is a promising alternative in view of its direc...

Meliolaceous fungi on economically important plants in India - II: On plants of non-wood forest produce

Abstract: © Zoo Outreach Organisation; www.zoosprint.org Manuscript 1493; Received 02 January 2006; Finally accepted 28 June 2006; Date of publication 21 July 2006 2356 August 2006 | ISSN 0973-2535 (Print edition); 0973-2551 (Online edition) We have reached a stage to utilize and conserve our natural resources in sustainable and skilful manner. Hence, it is urgent and important to evaluate our biodiversity. Fungi form an object of the present study.