"Eco-development" is a strategy often applied in and around protected areas that integrates conservation efforts with the social and economic development of local communities, aiming to ensure that the benefits of conservation are shared and that local people become partners in conservation, thereby promoting the in situ conservation of biodiversity.
“Eco-development” means ________.
Asked in KPSC KAS Prelims 2017 · Topic: Biodiversity (Conservation Strategies: In-situ (National Parks, Sanctuaries, Biosphere Reserves, Sacred Groves))
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Answer: A. In situ conservation of biological diversity involving local communities
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