| Protected Area Management : |
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Strengthening of the Sanctuary fence. |
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Creation of artificial water holes for wildlife. |
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Improvement in the staff residential and office facilities. |
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Training to field staff in eco-development strategies, micro planning, PRA etc. |
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Staff study tour for joint forest management activities. |
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Habitat restoration, work eg. Removal of weeds, gully plugging, repair of old water point etc. |
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Improvement of reserve. and non-reserve vidis through participatory approaches. |
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| Village Eco-development : |
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Organising meeting with the villagers of revenue villages, forest settlement villages and nesses. |
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Formation of eco development committees in these villages. |
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Three micro-plans viz. Krangsa, Natalia, Ghodawadi and one settlement dev. plan of Mindhaness have been approved by the World Bank and the work is on in these villages. A total of 80 micro-plans are prepared by the end of Mar. 2000. The work mainly consist of providing LPG connections, land leveling, parapet wall around wells, digging or deepening of wells etc. |
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Training and exposure tours have been organised for the villagers. |
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| Impact Monitoring and Research : |
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More than twenty research topics have been taken up for field research. |
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| Strengthening of P.A. management plan : |
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A workshop was organiscd for eliciting views from various experts towards
preparation of Gir Bioregion Plan. The work is ongoing. |
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