Nagpur: Joint action to expand Entrepreneurship opportunities for stakeholders involved in Eko tourism with priority in local community members is one of the features of the new Eco-Tourism guidelines issued by MoeFcc.
On October 29, the Ministry issued guidelines for sustainable environmental tourism in the forest area and wildlife.
This guideline calls for developing eco-tourism in and around the designated location in areas rich in forests and wildlife and ex-situ conservation areas, and the designated site will include biological, geographical, geophysical sites, and eco-inheritance such as Mangroves, Holy gardens, mud, beaches, flow, wetlands, waterfalls, rivers, hills, caves etc.
This guideline focuses on promoting environmental tourism by maximizing output that supports nature and natural resources in its original form arising.
Interaction between people and nature.
This guideline will apply to all protected areas (PAS), which currently number more than 900 throughout the country, and many potential sites located in the forest, society, and private forests outside the right regardless of land ownership.
This guideline allows third-party involvement in determining the capacity of the location of the eco-tourism location by considering the broad diversity of environmental, physical, social criteria and the economic development and management of tourism tail sites and their institutional capacity.
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Take excavation on the new guidelines, the Debi Goenka environment said, “Moefcc still cannot distinguish between ecotourism and wildlife tourism.
The fact that this guideline is intended to be applied to the wildlife area clearly shows that wildlife tourism is equated with eco tourism.” Goenka added, “Second, efforts to allow temporary structures built in inner forest land need to be strongly opposed.
What is needed is a larger area that is free of interference and construction.” This policy also calls for local communities to become Eco-Tourism main stakeholders.
The central government will provide a participatory framework that encourages resource mobilization by a group of stakeholders in the development, operation, and maintenance of the eco-tourism zone.
This framework must ensure that fair rewards flow from eco-tourism increases, in addition to resource investors, to local communities, tribes, and other traditional forest residents including by increasing livelihood opportunities.
Wildlife Conservationist PraFulla Bhamburkar said the guidelines were contradictory.
On the one hand, MOEFCC plans to change the forest law (conservation), 1980 provides relaxation for eco-tourism activities, but on the other hand, states that facilities or ecotourism structures in forest land must be subject to FCA provisions.
Bhamburkar added, “Norma ESZ will be diluted for construction work on behalf of eco-tourism and unauthorized construction near tiger reserves can be regulated.
The success rate of joint forest management (JFM) has become a problem that can be debated and again the involvement of such committees in the name The generation of income will not be fulfilled.
Interference in wild regions requires careful planning if it won’t be more disturbing to wildlife.
“This guideline also called for work towards the development of eco-tourism locations throughout the country and improving the way actions against eco-tourism coordinated with the sector And other synergies are exploited in the best way.
It also talks about streamlining regulations and simplifies the process and procedures while considering the purpose of the relevant sectoral policy.
What is intended * promotes low impact natural tourism that ensures ecological integrity of tourism sites and their environment.
* Promoting biodiversity, traditional ecological knowledge, and inheritance values ​​in Indian wilderness forests.
* Involving local communities for the use of sustainable custom material through a financial chain that is financially feasible so that it helps local people like that become Nirbhar Atma.
* Promoting partnerships among stakeholders to mobilize resources and develop and promote natural tourism, as a fair division of benefits.
* Increase Indian potential as the goal of global eco-tourism.