Shree Kumar Maharjan, Ph.D. International Cooperation Studies

Personally, I am not so much affectionate with the ex-situ conservation like Zoo, because many wild animals are kept in zoo in limited free range areas. It is always good to conserve the natural resources including wildlife in their natural state. In my college life, I studied two kinds of conservation. They are in-situ and ex-situ, but I had work in on-farm conservation, which is some in between but more related to in-situ conservation. Anyway, I went to Chiang Mai Zoo on 26 Feb, 2012 with Richard, Tui and Tin Li. I found the zoo well equipped and managed. It is good source of revenue generation in addition to conservation of wildlife. There are services of shuttle bus and electric train to go around the zoo. In order to get the ticket of Bus or train, we had to pay 70 baht per person and entry ticket fee is 250 baht, which includes package of entries to Aquarium, Penguin and some of the other areas except to the Panda. It amazed me that Panda and Penguin are also kept in the Zoo ...

Shree Kumar Maharjan,  Coordinator, Climate Change and REDD Programme,  Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)  Background   Indigenous peoples and communities are those, who have their historical connections with pre-colonial societies, their territories and distinct and unique cultures, identities. They have sustainable resource management systems in the societies where they are living and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit their ancestral territories, ethnic identities and management systems to the future generations, which is important for their continued existence as indigenous peoples in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. Indigenous peoples are also known as ‘Native people’, ‘Aboriginal People’, ‘Ethnic Minorities’, ‘Hill tribes’, ‘Tribal people’, ‘Adibasi and Janjaties’, ‘mountain peoples’ in different parts of the world. More than 400 million of the indigenous peoples are living in...