{"id":16364,"date":"2018-01-16T01:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T19:58:59","slug":"policy-needed-for-ecotourism-promotion-pccf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/16\/policy-needed-for-ecotourism-promotion-pccf\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy needed for ecotourism promotion: PCCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NIRJULI, Jan 15:<\/strong> Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Omkar Singh has said that Arunachal Pradesh has a lot of scope in ecotourism and the government needs to formulate policies for its promotion.<br \/>\nSingh was addressing the inaugural function of a five-day training programme on &#8216;Climate change adaptation for natural resource management&#8217;, jointly organized by the Bhopal-based Indian Institute of Forest Management and the NERIST&#8217;s forestry department, here on Monday.<br \/>\nProposed for four different groups of stakeholders &#8211; legislators, government officials, panchayat members, and academicians &#8211; the programme is aimed at sensitizing them to use their offices in formulating and promoting a policy related to climate change adaptation strategies, so that they may plan to undertake applied research, monitoring, evaluation and planning.<br \/>\n&#8220;Understanding climate change is necessary at not only the institutional and departmental levels but also at an individual level,&#8221; Singh said.<br \/>\nHe said the forests in Arunachal Pradesh support varied flora and fauna, including species of rhododendron, orchids and medicinal plants, but remain unexplored.<br \/>\n&#8220;There is urgent need for establishing a sanctuary of rhododendron, besides eco-clubs and training institutions,&#8221; Singh said.<br \/>\nCiting the success story of community forest conservation in the Shergaon forest division by the indigenous people there, he advised all to emulate their example.<br \/>\nConvener of the programme, Dr OP Tripathi called for a &#8220;collaborative, community-based and participatory approach&#8221; on the issue of climate change adaptation, adding that efficient watershed management and water budgeting, soil health, and disaster-risk mitigation strategies are also of paramount importance.<br \/>\n&#8220;The common people and farmers are ready to adopt good practices and adapt to the changes brought about by climate change; hence the entire approach instituted has to be bottom-up,&#8221; he opined.<br \/>\nChairperson of the Centre for Climate Change Cell, IIFM, Prof Bhaskar Sinha, Dr Karuna Shrivastva, NABARD DGM V Thirumalia, and NERIST Registrar Dr RP Bhattacharjee were also present at the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIRJULI, Jan 15: Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) Omkar Singh has said that Arunachal Pradesh has a lot of scope in ecotourism and the government needs to formulate policies for its promotion. Singh was addressing the inaugural function of a five-day training programme on &#8216;Climate change adaptation for natural resource management&#8217;, jointly organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}