Ecological Space

Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam on feral horses in Dibru-Saikhowa National Park (DSNP), 08/05/2025

Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …

Fal G

Germany's kfw bank group has approved a project of Hyderabad-based Eco Carbon to use its proprietary technology to produce Fal- g (flyash-lime-gypsym) bricks. This could lead to the purchase of carbon credits from Indian companies: manufacturing Fal- g bricks instead of clay bricks could earn Indian industry carbon credits. "Fal-g …

Pure loss

Vanishing topsoil is the greatest hidden cost of making bricks. There is the land on which a kiln has to be set up. This land kiln-owners buy. But there is also the land from which is dug out the clay that forms the raw material of the business. "The cost …

Pure need

Tez Singh, 67, is of Ardaspur village, district Aligarh, on the Aligarh-Mathura highway. "Eleven years ago, I gave 10 bighas of land, at Rs 15,000 per bigha, for three years to Laxmi Brick Industry.' He points towards the opposite side of the road. "Soil was to be dug up to …

The outcome at RIO+20 reinforces the consensus at Copenhagen to enable equitable access to sustainable development for all countries

The theme of the Rio + 20 Conference was "Green economy in the context of sustainable development and eradication of poverty" and it has not been possible to the find common ground in the serious differences over what constitute economic growth and human wellbeing – ‘the future we want’. Humans …

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