ABSTRACT
Community biodiversity management (CBM) is a community-driven participatory approach to the management of biological resources. Elements of CBM can be recognized within existing common property and natural resource management regimes, and as such a number of the customs and traditions related to natural resource management that are followed in villages in India qualify as CBM practices. Consequently, when conservation and development organizations aim to implement a CBM process under such circumstances, it is referred to as ‘endogenous CBM’ (Shrestha et al., Chapter 1.3).
