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Swaminathan training for SSC students
Nellore, March 10: M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, will be conducting a Vocation Training programme for students of Class X between May 3 and 29, 2010.
Students will be exposed to a variety of topics in the broad area of biotechnology and biodiversity conservation during the four weeks programme which is a residential workshop.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
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Govt sets up gene bank to conserve microbial resources
Ahmedabad: Gujarat government has established Gujarat Bio-diversity Gene Bank (GBGB) for conserving microbial resources which are significant to preserve diversified eco-systems.
- Date:
- 09/03/2010
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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UK wildlife becoming the ‘living dead’
While the UN is celebrating the international year of biodiversity conservation groups in the UK worry that a rising number of isolated populations are in danger of becoming extinct. Biodiversity is in decline in the UK.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Ecologist
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Ministry of Environment and Forests clarifies
KOCHI: Setting to rest the controversy over the October 26, 2009, notification which ‘removed 190 plants from the protection of the Biodiversity Act-2002,’ the Ministry of Environment and Forests has come out with a clarification that has assuaged the worries of environmentalists.
- Date:
- 19/02/2010
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- New Indian Express (Kochi)
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Keep biodiversity or face hunger
CHENNAI: Top scientists and policymakers from leading national and international institutes on Wednesday issued a declaration calling on all nations to prioritise conservation of the earth’s multitude of plant, agricultural, forest and marine species or risk widespread hunger and accelerating climate change.
- Date:
- 18/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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International conference on “biodiversity in relation to food and human security in a warming planet”: Chennai declaration
International conference on “biodiversity in relation to food and human security in a warming planet”: Chennai declaration. The conference held at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai from 15 to 17 February 2010.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
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Endangered beauty
The inclusion of Puntius denisonii, a strikingly beautiful fish found in the Kerala segment of the Western Ghats, in the IUCN Red List is an important step in the struggle to conserve the biodiversity of the hotspot.
- Date:
- 11/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Haat Kali sacred grove, Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand
Sacred groves are (small or large) patches of vegetation of varying sizes, conserved on the basis of the religious beliefs of the community. In India 13,720 sacred groves have been identified from 19 states and named differently in various parts of India as Law lyngdhoh in Meghalaya, Kovil Kadu in Kanyakumari, Dev Bhumi in Uttarakhand, etc.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 3 pp: 290
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Opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation through REDD
The United Nations climate negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) provide a rare opportunity for conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity. Here, we explore the implications of REDD design and implementation options on biodiversity conservation and ways to link REDD with biodiversity conservation.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- Conservation Letters Vol: 3 Issue: 1 pp: 53-61
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Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth: ecosystem-based approaches to climate change
This new book argues for the ecosystem-based approaches to mitigation and adaptation as a third essential pillar in national strategies to address climate change, as such strategies can offer cost-effective, sustainable solutions contributing to and complementing other national & regional adaptation strategies.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
- Source:
- The World Bank
