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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Ramesh Chaudhary. Timecode In: 00:02:12. Timecode out: 00:14:36. Notes: Baghmara Community Forest; Chitwan National Park. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Chain. Timecode In: 00:18:49. Timecode out: 00:19:25. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Vishnu Prasad. Timecode In: 00:32:15. Timecode out: 01:00:09. Notes: Community forest. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Nepal Log of DAT #: 11 Engineer: McQuay Date: April 23, 2001 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good A lot of People Speaking MS we're at the Bakmara Community Forest site. Going off to catch up with some people. A lot of banging. Interview of Young Man (YM)¿ naturalist and bird watcher. 2:15 My name is Ramesh Chaudhary 2:28 YM: It¿s a buffer zone¿ 2:42 YM: To see birds and crocodiles and some other animals that come here to drink water¿mostly rhinos, crocodiles, well actually, yeah, and to feed. 4:17 JN: You grew up here? 4:24 YM: Taro is the Indian peoples here. Been here 6-700 years. 4:47 YM: So that¿s one of the reasons that Taro people could live here before eradication of malarial diseases. 5:12 JN: What is nature of community effort Has been owned by government but has been handed over to community, so community can decided - but there are limitations. 5:38 YM:Yeah, but there is a limitation, so if you want to go beyond that limitation than you have to take permission from the government. 6:00 JN: What is the community forestry thing about? 6:41 YM: Main objective of having the community forest is to take pressure off the park ¿ and that¿s true I have noticed, I¿ve spent all my life here and I grew up here. So I can see the difference, before the whole pressure used to go into the park but now most people are engaged you know harvesting the forest products from the community forest, for example, you can see the three women are collecting the grass to feed their cattle. So if there is no grass here than they would have to go into the park. JN: What are some of the other things that they used to do in the park that they do here now? --YM: To collect other fresh products firewood, plants that you eat, like vegetables. 7:38 JN: How does system work with park revenues? 7:39 YM: Well, there is buffer zone council, so the revenue that govt. gives to the local people goes to that buffer zone council and equally distributed to all ____ who live in the buffer zone. 7:58 YM: No it¿s not 50%. It¿s 30%-50%¿ 8:11 YM: It directly goes to the different account. 8:20 YM: And now people can see the utilization of the revenues, bc people don¿t get cash in their hands but money is spent on the building of schools, the bridges and to pave the roads¿and they get compensation for human injury or casualty. They also get compensation when animals come and damage their property. Another way to help the people, to maximize their interest in conservation JN: Whom do you take out to bird watch? 9:15 YM: I work as a naturalist, so not all the people are into the birds, but those who are really keen and are really asking them what they want to see. Because I know the birds and I know the habitat where they live so first of all I ask them their interest and the bird they want to see and they come from everywhere, they¿re mostly from Europe, like England. And the Sweden and Norway and Germany and Holland and a few people from Asia. You have your own NGO? 10:00 YM: It¿s called Bird Education Society dedicated to conservation of birds in their habitat and to the public awareness. 10:17 YM: Every Saturday we organize a bird watching trip free of cost and anyone who is interested in birds they may participate with us and go out to see birds but before taking them out we give them a brief introduction t... (Notes truncated)
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- 21 Nov 2009 - Ben Brotman
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- 21 Nov 2009 - Ben Brotman