Pakistan - Protected Areas Management Project : environmental assessment
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The report is the process framework for participation of custodial communities in park management, and conservation, and, addresses both environmental, and resettlement issues. While involuntary resettlement issues are not envisaged, restrictions on the access by surrounding communities to utilize resources, within the protected areas (PAs), will need to be introduced, to prevent further ecological degradation. Nonetheless, management practices, and alternative income generation measures will be agreed upon with those whose livelihood is affected by project implementation. By and large, communities in the PAs will be allowed to a continued grazing, and fuel-wood/timber extraction for subsistence needs, but under Park supervision. However, the introduction of culturally compatible, alternative livelihood measures (income generation), raises questions, namely regarding the Kalash group, whose goat rearing practices in high altitudes, of cultural significance, offsets possible restrictions in the utilization of high alpine pastures. Environmental mitigation addresses: biodiversity conservation, through committed, community involvement to specific, measurable actions; limiting the use of agrochemicals, or unnecessary construction activity; development of participatory fuel-wood impact assessments; management strategies for summer, and winter pasture uses; management of no-timber forest products, and of no illegal timber extraction; and, fisheries management, within the estuarine, and marine zone of the PAs.
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