Guwahati: Biodiversity conservation group Aaranyak facilitated a three-day publicity journey on indigenous community-managed eco-tourism and pure useful resource administration for a bunch of neighborhood leaders together with members of the Eco Growth Committee (EDC) from the perimeter of Daying Ering Wildlife Sanctuary close to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.
The staff from Arunachal Pradesh which additionally had the DFO of D’Ering WL Sanctuary T Taga, was hosted by Aaranyak amongst Karbi tribe villagers in Kohora River Primary within the proximity of Kaziranga National Park {KNP) to assist them expertise first-hand the community-driven eco-tourism in addition to pure assets administration as a part of bigger biodiversity conservation efforts.
The publicity journey was organized beneath the Journey for Studying (J4L) initiative of Aaranyak to allow the visiting delegates to be taught from the experiences of the indigenous forest fringe communities in establishing community-based eco-tourism ventures on the fringe of the well-known rhino abode of KNP.
The publicity go to from January 10 to January 12 was organised beneath Aaranyak’s Pure Useful resource Administration Programme at Kohora River Basin (KRB) in Karbi Anglong.
An orientation on ‘Geo-Ecology of Kohora River Basin, Folks and Tradition’ adopted by discussions was carried out for the visiting staff by Aaranyak’s useful resource individuals Dr Jayanta Kr Roy, and Sarlongjon Teron to set the tone for the publicity journey.
The ‘Ingnam Kengkam’ (strolling within the forest) – in Karbi was additionally carried out for the visitors to permit them to expertise the richness of the pure atmosphere.
The trekking train by means of neighborhood forests was led by Dr M Firoz Ahmed, a senior scientist from Aaranyak and Sanjit Bey, a neighborhood skilled from the neighborhood.
Bey sensitized the guests on wild edibles and medicinal vegetation spicing the speak with people tales. Dr Ahmed complemented Bey’s efforts with scientific inputs and by anchoring remoted discussions on tips on how to construct eco-tourism utilizing native pure assets with none investments.
A small exhibition of merchandise of Pirbi, a community-owned enterprise that sells farm & non-farm produce, was additionally showcased.
“Being from the indigenous Adi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh, the visitors have been overwhelmed by revolutionary methods of working a nature path, meals cooked in an indigenous type which is well replicable in Arunachal Pradesh,” stated Maksam Tayeng, an EDC member-cum-journalist, who was a part of the visiting staff.
Laki Beypi, a backstrap loom weaver, demonstrated her weaving course of and enlightened the visitors on Karbi motifs and their significance.
The visitors additionally visited Engle Pathar village. Meena Tokbipi, a neighborhood, guided the visitors by means of her homestead tea backyard, explaining tea plucking and hand-rolled tea-making course of and served a home made tea (Smoked tea) selection to the visitors.
