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Training & Dissemination
At the community level, the research findings
are disseminated with the objective of raising
levels of awareness, involvement and
understanding amongst communities and inducing
action for conservation. Apart from sharing the
findings from the study at the community level,
they are also shared with the policy makers to
advocate for review of legal provisions,
wherever possible.
The findings and learnings from the research
studies have also been utilized to devise
communications and training material
(in Hindi and English).
Communication modules
1. Disadvantages
of forest fragmentation and significance of
wildlife corridors
2. Ecosystem
services of Western Himalayan Eco-region and
their significance
3. Methodologies
for preparing community based biodiversity
monitoring registers
4. Non
Timber Forest Produce, their uses and market
5. Sustainable
biomass harvesting techniques
6. Application
of GIS & Remote sensing for Natural Resource
Management
7. Understanding
forests and indicators of forest health
8. Watershed
management
9. Understanding
sustainability and its indicators
Training modules:
1. Community
based methodologies for tracking forest health
2. Community
based methodologies for forest resource
assessment
3. Planning
for community land plantations
4. Collection
of flora specimen and preparation of herbariums
5. Community
based planning for forest fire prevention,
protection and control measures, especially in
context of hill regions
6. Community
based planning for rotational grazing,
especially in context of hill regions
7. Making
micro plans, a community approach
8. Participatory
Resource Mapping for villages of Uttaranchal
Hills
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