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SUMMARY:Trade-offs in Biodiversity Conservation\; Stewardship and Reward -
  Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20210617T103000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Praveen Pardeshi\, an Indian civil servant currently leading t
 he United Nations’ global efforts to prevent non-communicable diseases. 
 He was served as Principal Secretary of Forests of Maharashtra (India).\n
 \nThe talk will be hosted by Professor Bhaskar Vira\, Department of Geogra
 phy.\n\nIndia is home to a rich biodiversity which has defined India’s c
 ivilisational identity.  The loss of ecosystems driven by humans is chang
 ing the nature and character of India\, culturally\, and even in terms of 
 socio-economic parameters. In this context\, some key conservation actions
  like rehabilitation of villages and settlements from within Protected Are
 as to restore undisturbed habitats comes at cost\; at the same time has po
 tential of providing continuity to India’s historical identity.\n\nPrave
 en will examine the trade-offs\, with a focus on such rehabilitations from
  tiger reserves like Tadoba and Melghat in Maharashtra\, India\, in which 
 he played a decisive role.\n\nCommunities living in forest fringes usually
  bear the burden of biodiversity conservation in terms of loss of resource
  access and conflict with wildlife\; yet are stewards of forests to which 
 they are culturally linked. Drawing on his years of experience\, Praveen w
 ill speak about how society and governments further engender this relation
 ship so it is dualistically beneficial to themselves and biodiversity\, pa
 rticularly in context of existing government initiatives in Maharashtra.\n
LOCATION:Zoom
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