Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India proposes to embark on a project, namely, Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project (BCRLIP), at two sites of global and national biodiversity importance in the country. BCRLIP signals a paradigm shift from hitherto Protected Area (PA) conservation approaches, wherein PAs were …
BHUBANESWAR: With a sizeable tribal population, Orissa has always been known for its forest cover. Around 37.34 per cent of the geographical area of the State is covered under forests which occupy a significant place in the socio-economic and cultural setting of the State contributing a lot to the livelihood …
BAGMUNDI (Purulia), March 19: An NGO launched a project to promote the sustainable use of biological resources last week at Kishore Bharati Ashram Vidyalaya in Bagmundi, 55 km from Purulia town. The stated mission of the non-governmental organisation, ENDEV, is to ensure "participatory management of bio-resources" and promote "benefit sharing …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has submitted a proposal of Rs 49.54 crore before the 13th Finance Commission (TFC) for the all-round development and conservation of biodiversity in Chilika lake. The new proposal for the Chilika lake includes participatory watershed management, improvement of salinity gradient, biodiversity conservation, fishery resource, fishery resource …
State biodiversity board identifies the island, which is inhabited by several endangered species Kaushik Chakravarthy, Bangalore: The Karnataka Biodiversity Board has identified Netrani Island, off the coast of Karwar, as a biodiversity heritage site. The island, which is 19 km away from the temple town of Murudeshwar, is surrounded by …
Due to excessive extraction of medicinal plant species in high altitude areas, Uttarakhand has seen a serious depletion of its biological resources. The state government has introduced policies to promote the conservation of these species and encourage farmers to cultivate them and supplement their incomes. This paper examines the impact …
The country has over 46,000 plant species, and 573 tribal communities. Ethnic communities are crucial to the conservation of bio-diversity spots, points out Sanjay Pandey With an estimated ten per cent of India
The small farmers of Central Himalayan region are achieving high level of diversification through rotation of pure crops in space and time, and through mixed cropping systems. The system with a potential to feed the hill population and conserve natural resources, requires serious attention from the policy makers, to survive.
Hill farming system involves diverse crops and their varieties, medicinal plants, forest species, practiced by the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. These tribal farmers are conserving biodiversity and meeting the food, balanced nutrition and health benefits from this farming system. Recognizing and rewarding the custodians of biodiversity and conserving the …
Supporters of small-scale farming claim that it provides livelihoods, and it can also conserve agrodiversity. In an attempt to show this, an international network of scientists joined hands with farmer communities to document agrodiversity. By sharing this knowledge with other farming communities, they showed how it is possible to achieve …
The relationship among mammal assemblages, site age and vegetation structure was assessed along three conservation corridors that were created to link national parks to the wet tropics World Heritage Area of North Queensland, Australia. Seventeen restored rainforest sites were classified into six site types according to their planting age, which …
This article investigates if higher levels of social capital, better governance structures, and a more ambitious conservation policy are positively linked to the ability of states to address biodiversity loss. Serving this purpose is a data set containing estimates of woodpecker diversity in 20 European countries. These data are argued …
Nepal has been moving towards the fulfilment of its commitment to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Since long time, Nepal has been adopting all the decisions emanating from the Conference of the Parties. Nepal has also become party to various legally binding international instruments that are in line with …
Biodiversity within inland water ecosystems in southern Africa is both highly diverse and of great regional importance to livelihoods and economies. However, development activities are not always compatible with the conservation of this diversity and it is poorly represented within the development planning process. One of the main reasons cited …
Forestry is an extensive land use system in Nepal. The forest and trees provide a vast array of goods and services to human beings. Forest and tree resources provide the basic commodities such as fuel wood, timber and fodder to the people and serve as an important ecological function such …
