The report highlights a global phenomenon: Harsh discipline, corporal punishment, and other forms of violence at school; gendered norms and expectations; and other factors, are preventing boys from achieving academically, while increasing absenteeism and dropouts.UNESCO data reveals that for every 100 women globally, only 88 men are enrolled in tertiary …
A silent yet significant evolution has taken place in the Sunderbans in last two decades. Hitherto known to be a forest of Hental (Phoenix Paludosa) and Kalo Baine (Avicennia Alba), it has become a forest with predominant species being Garan (both Ceriops Decundra and Ceripos Tagal species). The first ever …
The vast mangrove forest in the Sunderbans is fast losing its capacity to absorb carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases, from the atmosphere due to rise in the salinity of water, rampant deforestation and pollution, a study has found. The mangrove forest, marsh grass, phytoplanktons, molluscus and other …
LALITPUR: A walk in and around Patan Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is not so pleasant of late, with stench drifting across and piles of garbage creating an eyesore, all thanks to a halt in collection of waste by Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City Office for the last four days. …
A total of 42 rhinos were poached in Assam last year Expressing serious concern over poaching of rhinos in Assam’s Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has warned India of including the wildlife reserve in “the List of World Heritage in Danger” if it failed to check poaching …
GUWAHATI: Western Assam's Manas National Park which also covers a part of Bhutan has excited conservationists. A study conducted last month by a team from Manas, Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Arya Vidyapeeth College, Gauhati University and biodiversity conservation NGO Aaranyak revealed a thriving hitherto undocumented amphibian and reptile population. …
The Australian government is trying to have 74,000 hectares of declared World Heritage forest area revoked to allow logging, a historical move to overturn a decision of the World Heritage Committee. The World Heritage Committee will make their final decision on the proposed delisting of the world heritage area at …
With the monsoon setting in, Assam Forest Department is planning to send about 150 additional men of the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) to the Kaziranga National Park to secure the wildlife, particularly the one-horned rhinos in the park, from the poachers. Assam Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain said this today …
The UN has expressed alarm at Australia’s proposal to dump 3m cubic metres of dredged material into the Great Barrier Reef world heritage site, saying the development could place the site on Unesco’s list of shame. The Australian and Queensland governments have granted approval for dumping as part of the …
UNESCO is adding Japan’s Southern Alps mountain range and the Tadami beech forest to its global list of biosphere reserves, the government learned Thursday. Known as eco parks in Japan, the U.N. agency assigns biosphere reserve status to regions that exemplify a balance of human activity and nature. But at …
British oil company Soco International has agreed not to explore in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park unless its government and UNESCO agree it would not threaten the area’s world heritage status. Soco has been at loggerheads with conservation campaigner WWF for months over its activities in Virunga, Africa’s …
Gir And Girnar Likely To Be First In India To Find Place On Both Culture, Nature Lists. The proposal for the World Heritage Site status for Gir and Girnar could make it the county’s first to be on both cultural and nature site lists. The site houses the Asiatic Lion …
The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) of Himachal Pradesh has been nominated for the prestigious UNESCO-approved World Heritage Site status. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the advisory body to the UNESCO Committee on Nature, has nominated 12 natural and mixed sites from across the world for the …
Netherlands based maritime infrastructure company Royal Boskalis Westminster is committing “serious environmental crimes” in the Maldives, a local environmental group has said. The company – claimed to have the world’s largest dredging fleet - has come under fire for mining sand from the country’s only UNESCO biosphere reserve in Baa …
UNESCO on Thursday condemned a decision to allow the dumping of dredge waste in Great Barrier Reef waters and recommended the Australian marine park be considered for inclusion on the World Heritage in Danger list. The decision in January to allow three million cubic metres of dredge waste to be …
The United Nations world heritage body has expressed ‘‘concern’’ and ‘‘regret’’ about Australia’s approval of the dredging and dumping of millions of tonnes of sludge for new coal ports in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. But UNESCO has recommended Australia get a one-year stay on putting the Barrier …
This practical guide developed by The World Heritage Centre aims to assist those responsible for the management of natural World Heritage sites and provide better understanding how climate change may affect those features of the site that contribute to its Outstanding Universal Value and offer ideas for identifying options for …
The State government will move Ministry of Environment and Forests seeking Rs. 2.14 crore assistance for overall development of Similipal Biosphere Reserve. A management action plan that has been prepared keeping in mind the infrastructure and manpower requirement has been approved by Biosphere Reserve Management Council headed by Chief Secretary …
Poachers shot dead one more full-grown rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park on Sunday night and took away its horn triggering fresh public protests against the unabated rhino poaching in the national park. A park official informed that an adult female rhino was shot dead and its horn was cut away …
Tourists and nature enthusiasts have started thronging the two primary habitat of one-horned rhinoceros in Assam — Kaziranga National Park and Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary — which have been thrown open for visitors for this season. Even as tourists from within the country and abroad flock the Kaziranga park, which is …
If all women in India had completed secondary education, the under-five mortality rate would be 61 per cent lower, UNESCO has said. India and Nigeria account for more than a third of child deaths worldwide. If all women in both countries had completed secondary education, the under-five mortality rate would …
