CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON FORESTS AND LOCAL LIVELIHOODS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF SCIENTISTS AT INDIA’S FIRST “CANOPY WORKSHOP”.
Forest Canopies and Sustainable Livelihoods
11th – 14th June 2006
The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), a Bangalore based non-governmental organisation (NGO) is hosting an international workshop, funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Global Opportunities Fund and the United Nations Environment Programme, in collaboration with the Global Canopy Programme, a UK charity, to discuss climate change impacts on forests and to promote the sustainable use of forest canopies.
Delegates from Brazil, Ghana, Madagascar, Malaysia, China and India will exchange expertise and discuss the sustainable use of forest canopy biodiversity and how this can add value to National Park systems, by supporting local livelihoods through environmentally sustainable canopy based enterprise development. This may include canopy ecotourism, using modern canopy access technology. The delegates will also discuss the social and economic values of forest canopy ecosystem services to humanity and investigate how countries could be compensated financially for reducing deforestation rates.
Outcomes of these discussions will be fed into a larger United Nations Environment Programme project to establish a global network of ‘Whole Forest Observatories’, to monitor canopy biodiversity and global climate change, one of which will be located in India’s Western Ghats.
For further details contact:
Vivek Ramachandran
Email : vivekr@atree.org
Tel : 91-80-23530069/70, 23533942
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