Society
About Society
Society Name: West Bengal Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Society
Society Brief:
It has been constituted vide Government of West Bengal, Department of Forests Resolution no. 1450-For/FR/O/G/6M-12/12, dated 28.06.2012 under the West Bengal Society Registration Act 1961.
Society objectives:
- To improve Forest eco-system and to conserve biodiversity by undertaking afforestation, regeneration and wildlife management activities through Joint Venture Management approach, including institutional capacity development, thereby contributing to environmental conservation and harmonious socio-economic development of West Bengal.
- To strengthen the Joint Forest Management, to arrest land degradation and also to enhance the capacity of local people for higher income generation and thereby improving the livelihood of forest dwellers and other forest dependent communities.
- To adapt an integrated approach for forest and biodiversity conservation.
- To highlight the necessity of the Institutional Capacity Development and of the Community Development Component in the Forest Sector of the State of West Bengal.
