Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Independent evaluations of the impact and legacy of large donor-funded integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) are critically important but rarely undertaken. The India Eco-Development Project around Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR-IEDP) in southern India received US$ 6.0 million, of which 43.2% was spent on community-based conservation activities. The PTR-IEDP was …
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the only mangrove in the world where tigers still live. The Sundarbans has been under various forms of management for about 2,000 years, and is classified as a Tiger Conservation Landscape of Global Priority. Little is known about the Sundarbans tigers, which are …
Khonoma is a village in Nagaland and home to the proud Angami tribe. The region was once rich in biodiversity and wildlife but had been stripped clear of most of its wildlife by 1993. However the trajectory of conservation efforts in Khonoma in the last decade has been awe inspiring.
Efforts to bolster tiger population in Sariska Two tigers, one male and one female, were introduced in Sariska Tiger Reserve, where the tiger population had dropped to zero, in June 2008. The tigers were brought from the nearby Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve. The plan also involved relocating four villages
KOKRAJHAR, Dec 19: Hundreds of butterflies of different varieties are being killed due to vehicular movement at Bismuri-Sarpang (Bhutan) Road daily, which pass through the thick Chirang Reserve Forest in Kokrajhar district, but no measures has been adopted to protect the varied species of butterflies. Kushal Choudhury of Kokrajhar Science …
DIBRUGARH, Dec 19: The Forest Department of the State should be empowered with the special power in order to control the pachyderm menace in the State effectively. Dibrugarh MP Sarbananda Sonowal demanded this while addressing the Parliament on December 18. He said that the delegation of power to the State …
In the wake of severe fighting in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, worried rangers began a painstaking census late last month of the park's highly endangered mountain gorillas, nearly a third of the world's known population.
The aim of this study was to assess the potential for coexistence between rural people (living adjacent to a protected area) and predators (from the same area) ranging onto communal land. Ninety members of local communities bordering Manyeleti Game Reserve, which is contiguous with Kruger National Park, South Africa were …
Development of a road brings cheers anywhere especially in the North East where transport network is very poor and in bad shape. But widening of the National Highway- 37, which rips through the famous Kaziranga National Park, has rung alarm bells for the forest officials and the conservationists. The road …
South Africa on Thursday sold 47 tonnes of elephant ivory for $6.7 million, under the first series of UN-approved auctions in almost a decade. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) criticised the sales as irresponsible, saying they would encourage poaching that has cut elephant populations drastically. "By permitting legal …
Puducherry, MONITOR lizards, an endangered species, are being poached in Tamil Nad u and sold in canteens here. After seizing two monitor lizards last Friday , the Department of Forest and Wildlife has seized six monitor lizards on Monday morning at Villianur. The lizards were brought by two tribals from …
By Subhash Chandra N S, DH News Service, Bangalore: Sighting owls is considered an ill omen to many people, but for young Aymaan Ataz, the second PU student from St Joseph
The Great Indian Bustard (GIB; Ardeotis nigriceps) is endemic to the Indian subcontinent and is listed as a critically endangered species. The species is a summer visitor and breeder in Pakistan. Due to ineffective law enforcement and human persecution for its alleged aphrodisiac value, the species is close to extinction …
Africa's rich abundance of life seems inexhaustible, but growing pressure on animals and plants could lead to greater poverty, more wars and migration to other continents, experts warned. From fish in Burkina Faso, to Ethiopian wild coffee, Kenyan forests and traditional medicine plants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the …
A study was undertaken in three villages of Bhiwani District in Haryana to assess the value of habitat function of planted forests. These villages were located at varying distance from a Blackbuck (Gazella gazella) Breeding Farm, which is a planted forest. Contingent valuation method was by asking people to reveal …
The Rann is the most remarkable and unique feature of the Kachchh region. 'City of Flamingoes' - the only known breeding grounds of the Flamingo in India had been first reported and discovered in the 1886 by Maharao Khengarji, but it was Dr Salim Ali's work that forms the first …
Sustainable tourism (ST) development in Zanzibar is considered as one of the vital activities that could generate income for day-to-day management of protected areas through benefit-sharing. This paper examines the potential of benefit-sharing from sustainable tourism in the Kiwengwa-Pongwe tourism zone (KPTZ) in Zanzibar from two major routes: water services …
