Title:
Wilderness Areas Under Threat By Multilateral And Bilateral Funding
Agencies
Proposed by: Dilip Khatau
Seconded by:
Bittu
Saghal
WHEREAS,
Multilateral and bilateral funding agencies, principally the World
Bank, continue financing governments and projects in biodiversity rich
Third World Countries which often negatively impact wilderness areas
through unsustainable exploitation and destructive social implications;
such as:
- World Bank finance is being made available to commission more than 100
open pit coal mines in India, which affects the Hazaribagh-Palamau tiger
and elephant corridors and adjoining forests.
- World Bank finance is also being made available to construct four lane
highways through critical tiger forests in the Nallamalai hills, south of
and contiguous to the Nagarjuna Sagar Tiger Reserve.
Many other examples of equally destructive projects have been documented
across the world that cause displacement of human populations, which in
turn are forced to move into wildernesses and thus further increase the
possibility of extinction for endangered wild species;
THEREFORE,
the 7th World Wilderness Congress hereby
RESOLVES, that
The major international funding agencies, especially the World Bank,
stop funding projects which negatively impact wildland areas, important
wildlife and plant species, and the human communities dependent upon them;
cancel or redirect loans where relevant.
Proposed by:
Dilip Khatau
The Corbett Foundation,
A-3 Gitanjali Enclave
New Delhi 110017
India
+91 11 6861189 tel
Corbett_foundation@yahoo.com
Seconded by:
Bittu Saghal
Sanctuary magazine,
Maker Chamber iv
Nariman Point
Bombay 400001
India
+91 22 2830061
bittusahgal@vsnl.com
