Ecotourism in India

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Posted by Your Guide on July 13, 2006 5:13 PM

Eco-tourism and conservation outtings are a vaguely popular and more responsible way of conducting your adventure vacations. As of yet there haven't been many in India until now:

Making an all-out effort to check poaching, Madhya Pradesh government plans to open its wildlife sanctuaries for ecotourism to attract visitors for trecking, camping, bird watching and adventure sports through its newly formed ecotourism board.

Though wildlife tourism will continue to be the strength of ecotourism, the board will ensure that visitors in future will experience trekking, camping, bird watching and adventure sports, State Forest Minister Himmat Kothari told reporters today.

Initially, ecotourism would be promoted around nine national parks and 25 wildlife sanctuaries, including five tiger reserves, he said adding new locations will soon be opened to offer diversity of choices to tourists and the board, formed last year, will collaborate with tourism department for the task.

Read more here. If you have to kind of cash or clout to be able to do this, there won't be another great opportunity to see a wildlife area like this anywhere else in the world...

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