Biodiversity Conservation
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Conservation of Loharghat biodiversity stressed
MIRZA, Aug 9 – The preservation of fauna and flora of Loharghat forest is a matter of importance at this hour when restoration of degraded and fragmented forest cover has gained nationwide attention.
10/08/2010
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Feature Articles
Native lands
The Santa Clara Pueblo is among a growing number of tribes across the United States—of 564 recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)—making moves to bring back land crushed over generations of human use.
Aug 2010
National Geographic
Feature Articles
Grassroots biodiversity conservators of Arunachal Pradesh: national recognition and reward
The issue of recognizing and acknowledging the value of traditional know-
Jul 2010
Current Science
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Feature Articles
Conserving the stage: Climate change and the geophysical underpinnings of species diversity
Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify regions of faunal stability or high species turnover.
Jul 2010
PLoS ONE
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Feature Articles
Effectiveness of biodiversity surrogates for conservation planning: Different measures of effectiveness generate a kaleidoscope
Conservation planners represent many aspects of biodiversity by using surrogates with spatial distributions readily observed or quantified, but tests of their effectiveness have produced varied and conflicting results.
Jul 2010
PLoS ONE
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News
Work on to save mango orchard with rare varieties
The Punjab Biodiversity Board has started work on the conservation of Inami Bagh, an orchard in Bassi Umar Khan village in Hoshiarpur district with over 165 mango trees and about 30 rare native varieties, some represented by only one tree.
12/07/2010
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
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Assumption College: Global meet on biodiversity
KOCHI: Assumption College, Changanassery, is organising a three-day international conference on ‘The Green Path to Sustainability: Prospects and Challenges’ from Wednesday as a part of the diamond jubilee celebration of the college.
06/07/2010
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Feature Articles
The home gardens of Wayanad
Wayanad, which has been in the news for the high number of farmer suicides, is also known for widespread homestead farming. A typical home garden integrates trees with field crops, livestock, poultry and fish. Home gardens form a dominant and promising land use system and maintain high levels of productivity, stability and sustainability, say A V Santhoshkumar and Kaoru Ichikawa.
Jul 2010
Infochange Agenda
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Reports and Documents
Addressing climate change: issues and solutions from around the world
This publication synthesizes information on IUCN’s work in this domain, particularly highlighting programmatic work in projects at local and national level, implemented by IUCN’s Global thematic and Regional Programmes and Commissions. It serves as an introductory “where IUCN is at” on climate change response in some areas of its work.
Jul 2010
IUCN
Reports and Documents
The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: report for business - executive summary
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is a global study, initiated by the G8 and five major developing economies and focusing on ‘the global economic benefit of biological diversity, the costs of the loss of biodiversity and the failure to take protective measures versus the costs of effective conservation’.
Jul 2010
UNEP
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