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Components of the project
- Improved PA Management
- Village Eco-development
- Education and Awareness
- Impact Monitoring & Research
Involving local people in conservation
Around 25000 people living around the reserve used to exert considerable
pressure on the forest resources for their sustenance.
Eco-development project aims to reduce this pressure by addressing
their social and economic needs employing novel and sustainable
approaches.This also ensures a reciprocity in forest conservation
which will ideally act as a social fence around the PA.
In Periyar, presently there are 72 EDCs. The target population
is about 58,000. Different categories of EDCs include village EDCs
like Tribal settlements,hamlets etc. Some are user groups like Graziers,
fuelwood and thatching grass collectors and pilgrimage based EDCs.
There is a third category of professional group EDCs like Ex-Cinnamon
Bark Collectors EDC, Tribal Trackers cum Guides EDC, Watchers Welfare
EDC etc.
In the neighbourhood EDCs the stress is on socio-economic upliftment,
in user group the stress is on reduction of negative impact on PA
resources, and in professional group EDC it is the promotion of
long-term positive interaction of the group with the PA.
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