Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation brings you the summary of ‘Problems and Issues of Garo and Koch Community in so-called Eco-Park Project of Bangladesh’, a case study presented in the 3rd Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conference in Lijiang , China .
The case study dealt with the Garo and Koch indigenous communities adversely affected by the Eco-park projects of the government. The social, economic and health impacts of the eco-park projects and monoculture plantation upon the Garo and Koch communities were profoundly studied. The Eco-park projects were implemented to boost tourism in the region. It also shows the destruction of the forest diversity by the introduction of monoculture plantation such as rubber, banana, pineapple and alien exotic plants.
The author of the case study, Miss Sadia Drong, makes recommendation to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Government of Bangladesh for the conservation of forest diversity and the protection of the indigenous rights to livelihood of the Garos and the Koch.
The case study dealt with the Garo and Koch indigenous communities adversely affected by the Eco-park projects of the government. The social, economic and health impacts of the eco-park projects and monoculture plantation upon the Garo and Koch communities were profoundly studied. The Eco-park projects were implemented to boost tourism in the region. It also shows the destruction of the forest diversity by the introduction of monoculture plantation such as rubber, banana, pineapple and alien exotic plants.
The author of the case study, Miss Sadia Drong, makes recommendation to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Government of Bangladesh for the conservation of forest diversity and the protection of the indigenous rights to livelihood of the Garos and the Koch.
