International Year of Biodiversity
The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. It is a celebration of life on earth and of the value biodiversity for our lives. The 2010 theme for the International Day
Green Hope
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Managing for a whole forest
For Bob Jackson, the most important factor in forest management is the direction, not the speed or efficiency. Results are created one day at a time. Since, they bought the land in 1970, Bob Jackson and Leo Goebel have been managing 160 acres of Douglas fir, white fir, Ponderosa pine, and larch on the north slope of the Wallowas.
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The economic aspect of ecoforestry
Through this article the author wants to give information that can be adapted and applied anywhere by people who wish to know how one can restore and sustainably use depleted forest resources.
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Green Vidarbha
Vidarbha is green again, the rains have finally come, and at least at this point of time, seem to have come to stay their entire term, unlike the previous years when the it simply disappeared after giving us a false hopes of a normal monsoon. Here the article takes a look at the scene as it stands in the month of July with fairly good rains making the region appear like a paradise of green.
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The buffer zone at last
May 5 2010 will probably go down the annals of wildlife history as the first major step taken by the government of Maharashtra for the protection of tigers that are dwindling faster than the receding forest
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The legacy of Jim Corbett- Remembering a conservationist
By remembering the great naturalists of this country, people try to rekindle the slowly extinguishing fire that these men had once ignited in their minds. If some of these great men were great human beings as well, we remember them with greater affection and love. Jim Corbett, one of India's foremost conservationists, stands in the category of being a great and noble human being too.
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Forest rights and implementation issues
Maharashtra's efforts to enforce the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act have brought forth many sticky issues.
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The monsoon is here
The monsoon is a wind current in Southern Asia, blowing north east during the summer and southwest monsoon during the winter. During the summer, the monsoon brings heavy rains to southern Asia and Africa, while in the winter it causes the drier seasons. The lives of many people in these areas have developed around these seasonal changes.
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Birds of a feather....lost together!
Like many species of flora and fauna, many avifauna too are endangered, especially due to habitat loss. While the International Conference on Hornbills exchange news, welcome ideas and make efforts towards their conservation by various means through greater networking possibilities today, there are birds which birders are still trying to find in numbers that might be viable.
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Nature - The supreme power
The Gonds, like all aboriginal people, are animistic, for whom nature, from where they derive all their sustenance, is everything, hence a power to pray to and also appease.