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. …
Animals marked for death in the uk may now meet a painless end. A government committee has proposed a ban on ritualistic slaughter, requiring all animals to be stunned before they are killed. Even as current European regulations stipulate that farm animals should be rendered unconscious before slaughter, an exception …
Animal parts strewn all over the place; dogs and vultures preying over these wretched remains; dirt festering all around; horrible stench that makes your innards wrench with revulsion. Check out the meat you eat. For such horrific features are common to most slaughterhouses in the country. Most abattoirs across the …
A new initiative for the welfare of indigenous people was launched by an international group of experts at a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, from November 25-30. Known as
The return of the unicorns is an account of what it takes to save endangered large mammals. The author outlines the multifaceted recovery program--structured around targeted fieldwork and scientific research, effective protective measures, habitat planning and management, public-awareness campaigns, economic incentives to promote local guardianship, and bold, uncompromising leadership--that brought …
This report provides detailed data of the seventeenth livestock census. It consists of twenty-nine sub reoirts i.e. one all India, twenty eight state reports and one report covering all UTs. Each report provides corresponding data of livestock, poultry, fishery and agricultural implements further divided into rural/urban and total.
International experts who met in China recently have developed a computer software that could help endangered pandas find ideal mates for themselves. The software is programmed to analyse the health and family trees of captive giant pandas and then find suitable matches while avoiding close relatives. It is apprehended that …
Even as the European Union (eu) is set to ban most new cosmetics tested on animals from 2009 and block their import, animal rights groups fear that some trials
1924-25 to 1934-35 The taungiya scheme started during this working plan. The Britishers had to take up plantation on an urgent basis as the natural forest was stripped nearly bare by commercial harvesting. This plan was continued till 1944-45. 1944-45 to 1953-54 A decade later, the working plan describes the …
A threat to food security looms large over east and central Africa. The insect which causes the cassava mosaic disease is rapidly spreading around the western side of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and parts of Congo. Experts warn that the affliction is threatening the livelihoods of many people whose daily …
the European Union's authority for applying precautionary principle in environmental and health decision-making has been recently reinforced by two rulings of the European Court of Justice. Both cases arose from a 1999 regulation banning use of four antibiotics in animal feed. Two pharmaceutical firms had challenged the regulation arguing that …
The arena in the medieval French town of Carcassonne was packed to capacity. The occasion: a bullfight after a gap of 50 years. Even as fans cheered wildly inside the stadium, animal welfare groups locked horns with the organisers outside it.
the bitter spat that ensued over poor maintenance of animals in research laboratories saw two heads roll in the Union cabinet. The two ministers had been taking potshots at each other ever since the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (niv) was raided by the Committee for the Purpose of Control …
climate change is threatening the 22,000 polar bears that are surviving across the world. A recently released report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) states that the threat originates from the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. What is more terrible is that this scenario is …
MALES are more susceptible to chronic arsenic poisoning than females, shows a recent study conducted by Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo, Kumamoto University, International Medical Centre of Japan and Niigata University of Health and Welfare. During their study, the researchers analysed the correlation between arsenic exposure and skin …
Caged Cruelty Animals have a right to freedom, even if they are in zoos. At an animal park in Java, investigators found an orang utan kept in a concrete cage with garbage inside. In Bali, a pig tailed macaque was kept in a dingy cage with one leg chained to …
summers are round the corner and so is the scorching heat. Most dread the thought of it. But Mahesh, a 15-year-old white tiger of the Ahmedabad-based Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden, is all set to face the wrath of the Sun in grandeur. In 2000, his dwelling was ameliorated with the …
the government has announced a us $7 million plan to save the world's most endangered cat species. There has been an alarming drop in the population of the Iberian lynx that resembles a leopard and feeds on rabbits. Reasons for this decline include habitat loss for the lynx and its …
Devinder Sharma New Delhi-based food and trade analyst the issue is a part of the trends in global trade in totality. Western countries are trying to put obstacles in the name of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. They are trying to erect trade barriers in the name of environment and health. …
Theirs is no romantic tale of the desert. Rather the plight of camel herders of Rajasthan today is that of an endless struggle for survival. Time was when Virma Ram proudly watched his herd of camels stretch in an endless line along the dusty horizon. Today, his gaze has turned …
instances of animals straying out of forests are growing of late. With the aim to prevent these, the Maharashtra state forest department is chalking out a novel project. As per the project, leopards caught while straying into villages will be rehabilitated so that they do not return to human habitats. …
