Eco India: An eco-tourism model that focuses on forest conservation and building the local economy

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at how the Jabarkhet Nature Reserve in Uttarakhand, one of the country’s few privately-owned forest reserves, is an effort by conservationist Dr Sejal Worah to use the small patch of forest land to connect conservation with livelihood.
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CREDITS:
Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla
Director of Photography: Devesh Prajapati
Second Camera: Raju Juneja
Video Editor: Sujit Lad
Field Producer: Tarun Grover
Associate Producer: Shibika Suresh
Aerials: Gurmukh Singh
Script: Nooshin Mowla & Tarun Grover
Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu
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[@VirendraSingh-kl2bf]

Thank you so much Scroll India, it Means a lot us :) Team JNR

[@nikeshpatel5018]

Great idea for conservation of forest🌳 and wild life. 🦌 👌👌

[@AGknowStick]

Kudos to the efforts and vision of Dr. Vora and her committed team!
Thank you Scroll for giving us such an insightful and inspiring story that gives hope in these challenging times.
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@beautyzinglifestyle]

Salute to your efforts! We need more such people in our society.

[@vinshikajain]

I just love the kind of content scroll creates! Thank You.

[@ShivaniSharma-do2vv]

Very nice inspirational story ...sustainable living journey still has lot of learnings to do to find better and effective models and these individual and group efforts show the way ahead !!

[@bhenkateshpadhan]

Through this channel i m really fascinating towards contributing to biodiversity... Thank you so much for delivering such content..

[@ajithkumarkr1139]

ತುಂಬಾ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ...👌👌👌👌👌🤝🤝🤝🤝🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

[@suvodipmondal7625]

Day after day the Eco India is becoming better and better.

[@vaishaliPC]

The decision of not creating homestay or camping was a big change and surely it will help locals make the visitors part of their culture, good and lifestyle, also giving them warning source.

[@ivankinsman4829]

Great story on how a forest can be preserved for the benefit of the local community in a sustainable "sensible" manner...

[@sandeepkaur-nv6ze]

Great country, great people, great concept, great thinking ❤️

[@prakashmc2842]

Superb idea!! Great and different thinking!!

[@akshayaralikatti6171]

Love the content

[@sushantnarang7552]

Great work...

[@karunamenon6147]

not forgetting d hard work Dr Vora gas put in. Bless u.

[@nehamishra1391]

All have to love nature

[@talksofdharma2466]

I'm from a hilly village in Uttarakhand, and there is no forest in our village, every hill is stepped farmed, even if nothing grows there and the remaining few pine forest is burned daily for no reason! Creating a huge amount of smoke and heat.

[@adityasaxena3892]

You can make an impact. Talk to your local village panchayat or anyone in your village who has any kind of influence. Explain it to them how reforestation will help the local economy and such.. may be you can make something happen, who knows?

[@nirjabisht7668]

Good work. Keep it up 👍

[@vaibhavparab9491]

AMAZING

[@spidermantom4367]

Good work scroll

[@awesomemanu2601]

Save nature

[@ramkrsna11]

Ya a beautiful conservation model, you have money. You take a stake in this private forest, but with conditions. You generate jobs to locals, being a city dwellers, you have the opportunity to protect this environment.
And now a days buying land is a costly affair, instead we can share the land and care it.

[@vthilton]

Save Our Planet

[@karunamenon6147]

great I hope it us a success. wld luv to c d forest conserved and we don't convert into concrete jungle.

[@humzarockstar13]

I wish the conservation model was explained more.

[@insidemyslingbag]

♥

[@gr8bkset-524]

India has 4x the population of the US, yet its people live on 1/3 the size of land. It has a per capita carbon footprint of 2.5 tons vs the US per capita of 15 tons. What ever land remains is precious for wildlife especially that in the bio diverse foothills of the Himalayas.

[@mrunalsinghraghav5630]

Locals should be allowed to create such small patches in cities on the government lands that are not in use

[@kannans5670]

There is a Village called Kurudampalayam in Coimbatore doing many sustainability measure.. try capture their work too

[@salooni_tourism]

Land for leases organic farming, madican plantation and orchard or farmhouse in Dalhousie Himachal Pradesh

[@dara_1989]

70% of india is now farm land ... i wonder what is left for d wild !!🙄🙄

[@adamsandler7406]

Right

[@addynaidu6470]

Human footprint has to come down...delaying births seems sane solution

[@ragemodels]

India needs to adopt one child policy like China otherwise this beautiful country wih Ancient Forests is Doomed !!!

[@addynaidu6470]

@@ragemodels China might be regretting that decision probably.

[@anirbanpatra3017]

I really think they should increase the 30 people limit