Amity Law School, Noida: Project of Legal Research
Amity Law School, Noida: Project of Legal Research
Amity Law School, Noida: Project of Legal Research
1ST SEMESTER
Acknowledgement
The success and final outcome of this project required a lot of guidance
and assistance from many people and I am extremely privileged to have
got this all along the completion of my project. All that I have done is
only due to such supervision and assistance and I would not forget to
thank them.
Energy, water, nitrogen and soil minerals are other essential abiotic components
of an ecosystem. The energy that flows through ecosystems is obtained primarily
from the sun. It generally enters the system through photosynthesis, a process
that also captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. By feeding on plants and
on one another, animals play an important role in the movement of matter and
energy through the system. They also influence the quantity of plant
and microbial biomass present. By breaking down dead organic
matter, decomposers release carbon back to the atmosphere and
facilitate nutrient cycling by converting nutrients stored in dead biomass back to a
form that can be readily used by plants and other microbes.
ECO TOURISM
Eco-Tourism may offer one way of striking this critical balance well planned Eco-
Tourism can benefit both protected areas and resident of surrounding
communities by linking long-term biodiversity conservation with local, social and
economic development.
Any program for tourism development should have the underlying objective of
promoting the positive impacts. The negative impacts on the social, economic and
the physical environment of the designated areas. However, this same growth
creates significant opportunities for both conservation and local communities
benefit. Eco-Tourism can provide the much needed revenues for the protection of
national parks and other sources. In South and Southeast Asia, most of the
archaeological and historical preservation-taking place can be economically
justified because they provide attraction for tourists. In same cases such as in Sri-
Lanka, the admission fee paid by tourists is used directly for archaeological
research and conservation. Conservation and revitalization of traditional arts,
handicrafts, dance, music, drama, customs and ceremonies and certain aspects of
traditional lifestyle directly feed into tourism.
The ability to take fast decision should grow as these are the capitals of mankind
only four percent people live in ten percent area of hilly terrain all over the world,
but they decide the destinies of the forty percent living in the foothills. This
means that the planning and development of tourism infrastructure, its
subsequent operation and its marketing should focus on environmental, social,
cultural and economic sustainability criteria. But unfortunately the mountains in
India are experiencing an inexorable decline in the resource base for local
subsistence and a terrible deterioration in the already fragile environment. The
results are landslides and frequent floods in the densely populated plains to the
South of the Himalayas region in the Ganga and Brahmaputra basins. In the
Kumaon Himalayas in the last few decades, there has been unprecedented
growth in human population and a corresponding rise in development activities,
including housing, industry, agriculture, mining and communications.
Consequently, there has been a rapid shrinkage in the size of the remaining
natural habitats and forests. The tourism industry has succeeded in adding an
impact to the immense deforestation activities. Together with the construction of
roads and buildings the movement of heavy vehicles is maintaining degenerating
pressure on the already weakened mountains. Trekking is the latest craze with
the youth. Trekking for them means just climbing up and down over treacherous
terrier and not following the basic rules of civics and hygiene that go with sport.
Trekking enthusiasts thus leave in their wake mounds of garbage an ecological
destruction. As a result even remote places like Yamunotri, Ganga, Kedarnath and
Gaumukh have been subjected to destruction. Since the essence of eco-tourism
lies in admiration of nature and outdoor recreation, it encompassed a wide range
of activities such of trekking, hiking, mountaineering, bird watching boating,
rafting, biological exploration and visiting wildlife sanctuaries. In that whereas
adventure tourism looks for thrill, Eco-Tourism ensures satisfaction its
inspirational and emotional aspects are valued.
SOME CASES SHOWING THAT IT IS HARMFUL
Unfortunately the mountains in India are experiencing an inexorable decline in
the resource base for local subsistence and a terrible deterioration in the already
fragile environment. The results are landslides and frequent floods in the
Himalayan region in the Ganga and Brahmaputra basins. In the Kumaon
Himalayas, in the last few decades, there has been unprecedented growth in
human population and corresponding rise in development activities including
housing industry, agriculture, mining and communications. Consequently there
has been a rapid shrinkage in the size of the remaining natural habitats and
forests.