Word: ladakh
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Ecotourism does not always produce such benign results. In Ladakh, a remote Himalayan region in northern India, rural communities are overrun each summer by trekkers and their hungry ponies, which are destroying the limited vegetation. In Kenya's famed Masai Mara Reserve, overcrowding has become "a nightmare," says Simeon Kanani of Nairobi's Technical and Study Tours. In the mid-1990s the local county council earned $1 million a month for schools and hospitals from gate receipts, but at a price. "If you have 20 to 30 four-wheel drives in the park, is that ecotourism?" asks Kanani...
Norberg-Hodge talked about her 17-year experience of living with the Ladakh people of Tibet, supplementing her narrative with slides...
Road to the UN Conference on Environment and Development: North Meets South--by Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director, Ladakh Project; and Vanadana Shiva, executive director, Research Foundation for Science and Ecology. KSG, Starr Auditorium...