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community-based forest governance  from resistance to proposals for sustainable use   https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/community-based-forest-governance.pdf Community-based forest governance:
• Refers to the regulations and practices used by many communities for the conservation and sustainable use of the forests with which they coexist.
• This type of governance is collective-communal, and by tradition identifies with the protection of the forests with regard to their industrial and commercial use.
• It also identifies itself with traditional knowledge as an alternative to the classic “forest science” . The latter approach is based on simplified models, assumes that destruction is “reversible,” and has facilitated multiple cases of forest devastation as well as severe social injustic
Throughout India’s 60 years of independence, approximately 30 million Adivasis have been officially displaced from their natural territory, for
“development” projects including tourism, logging concessions, monoculture plantations, mining, reservoirs and roads. Various interests have attempted to claim that the Adivasi settlements are harmful and degrade tropical forests. But this discourse has merely been used to justify the exclusion of many communities and has facilitated commercial harvesting of India’s forests. The process has often begun with the creation of reserves, national parks and wildlife “sanctuaries”; and continued with the construction of roads to provide access for hotel infrastructure, turning these zones into tourist areas
with greater resultant impacts than those generated by the communities originally inhabiting them

 David Korten explores the vision of ecological civilizations  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74bcvUn81E 
Earth Charter International Nov 29, 2023 An Ecological Civilization is the future that thoughtful humans envision..That future has four defining features:1.       Respect and care for the community of life 2.       Ecological Integrity 3.       Social and Economic Justice 4.       Democracy, nonviolence, and peace
I  Ecological Civilization is the future defined by the world’s people as expressed by the Earth Charter. It is the name for the future to which caring, responsible humans aspire.

https://vikalpsangam.org/article/statement-condemning-detention-of-ladakhi-padyatris-marchers-at-singhu-border/ We, over 85 organisations and movements across India, condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh to Delhi who are raising valid demands of climate justice and 6th schedule status for Ladakh to the Government of India. This is doubly shocking given that some of these steps were promised to them during the elections in 2019, like the granting of Sixth Schedule status to Ladakh, and secure jobs for local youth. 

https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ladakh-Padayatra-Solidarity-Statement-by-VSGA-final-4.9.2024.pdf