The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act, 2006, popularly called FRA, was enacted to recognize vest the forest rights occupation in land dwelling Tribes(STs) Dwellers(OTFDs). Act became effective from 01 January, 2008. Broadly, all can be grouped into three different categories viz, Individual Rights (IR), Community Rights(CR), Resources (CFR). As m...

Extractive reserves constitute an innovative approach to match conservation and development objectives, which were originally envisaged as part of a land struggle by forest dwellers in Brazil. In spite of the idea's popularity and the attempts to apply the concept to different tropical regions, there has been little analysis of the combined conservation and development performance of extractive...

Aim of study: The basis for sustainable conservation any protected forest area is determined by the services it provides to ecosystem and immediate communities. This study seeks evaluate provided Okomu Forest Reserve that should warrant its conservation. 
 Area was conducted in Edo State, Southern Nigeria. major practices farmers surrounding communities are sole cassava intercropping with ...

The aim of this study was to compare the social capital indicators of members and non-members of cooperatives in Siahkal County.  The sample size was calculated by the Cochran formula to include300individuals (150 member cooperatives and 150 non-members of the cooperative) that were selected by the stratified random sampling method. The main tool employed in this study was a questionnaire that ...

Fecal samples were collected from 655 passerine birds representing 190 species from 13 collection sites in Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina from August, 1990 August, 1997. The fecal samples were stored in 2.5% K2Cr2O7 and examined for coccidian oocysts within six weeks after collection. The overall prevalence of coccidian parasites in the samples was 20.9% (137/655). The one-sample test of ...

Medium-to-large mammals within tropical forests represent a rich and functionally diversified component of this biome; however, they continue to be threatened by hunting and habitat loss. Assessing these communities implies studying species' richness and composition, and determining a state variable of species abundance in order to infer changes in species distribution and habitat associations....

BACKGROUND Over half of Glasgow's 4000 homeless people drink hazardously but the prevalence of alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD) has not been described. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of ARBD among homeless hostel dwellers in Glasgow. METHODS A representative sample of homeless hostel dwellers was surveyed using validated survey instruments and clinical assessment. RESU...