Sharachchandra Lele, Neema Pathak Broome, Atul Joshi, Akshay Chettri, Meenal Tatpati, Shruti Mokashi

Centre for Environment and Development ATREE | August 2020

In the global forest context, India is a special case, where a relatively small forest area not only holds tremendously high biodiversity, but also coincides with a culturally rich and diverse set of forest-dwelling communities with a long tradition of forest-based life and livelihoods. Conservation of biodiversity is intertwined into these traditions.