Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options
Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve - Equitable Tourism Options
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Environment, Bangalore.<br />
• Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and Chief Wildlife Warden in<br />
Karnataka, Bangalore.<br />
• Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited, Represented by<br />
the Managing Director, Bangalore<br />
• Karnataka Forest Development Corporation Limited<br />
Represented by the Managing Director, Bangalore.<br />
MIs. Gateway Hotels and Getaway Resorts Ltd., Mumbai.<br />
Profile of petitioners<br />
Nagarhole Budakattu Hakku Sthapana Samithi is an exclusively Adivasi<br />
organisation promoted for the welfare of the adivasis of the Nagarhole<br />
National Park. It has undertaken a series of activities to promote ecofriendly<br />
programmes among the adivasis and to protect rights of the adivasis over<br />
the park and its produce. These adivasis have enjoyed right of forest<br />
produce from time immemorial and have been the guardian of the<br />
ecosystem, which they have preserved since the time oftheir ancestors.<br />
Adivasi Joint Action Committee is a network of NGO activists in the<br />
Adivasi belt of South India.<br />
National Alliance for People's Movement is a national network of peoples'<br />
movement, which has taken series of programmes to protect and preserve<br />
the environment and to prevent and damage to the ecology in the country. It<br />
has supported movements by the indigenous people to protect their right<br />
over natural resources.<br />
Coorg Organisation for Rural Development (CORD) is an organisation<br />
involved in though development work in the Nagarhole area. It is a registered<br />
society underthe Karnataka Societies Registration Act.<br />
The other organisations that have supported this movement are:<br />
EQUATIONS: Established in 1985, EQUATIONS, is a non-profit<br />
organisation that investigates impacts and alternatives in tourism policies<br />
and structures. The present form of tourism raises serious questions<br />
regarding its real benefits, as also its socio-economic impacts on host<br />
communities. Our work focuses on tourism concerns in India and the<br />
developing world and includes documentation, publications, research,<br />
seminars, networking, advocacy and lobbying for tourism that is more just,<br />
37 Nilagiris : Failing Glory
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