Guwahati: Buddhist monks in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang — which China claims as its own — have risen against construction of dams that they fear may endanger monasteries in the district. One of the shrines under threat is the famed 400-year-old Tawang monastery, considered the largest in India. On Tuesday, hundreds …
Guwahati: Buddhist monks in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang — which China claims as its own — have risen against construction of dams that they fear may endanger monasteries in the district. One of the shrines under threat is the famed 400-year-old Tawang monastery, considered the largest in India. On Tuesday, hundreds …
Conservation of natural resources by traditional societies across the globe seems to have arisen out of the age-old practice of animistic religious belief systems. Such belief systems are fundamental aspects of people’s culture, which strongly conditions their use of natural resources. Arunachal Pradesh, a biodiversity hotspot region in the eastern …
Water is an essential natural resource for human and living organisms. We use water for various purposes like drinking, cleaning, agriculture practices, transportation, etc. It is the prime resource for the hydel power station, providing electricity for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes. Among the northeastern states, Arunachal Pradesh is endowed …
Arunachal Pradesh, being the largest state in eastern Himalayan region, has unique biodiversity and diverse cultural resources. The state is the homeland of five ecosystems and 26 major tribes. The livelihood security of tribal communities is determined by terrestrial and aquatic indigenous bioresources. Economy of tribals living in far-flung areas …
Indigenous ways of conserving the animals through adoption of traditional breeding methods, classifying the breeds, diagnosing the diseases, and preventing the disorders and diseases by using locally available ethnoveterinary practices is still found to be rational and predominant in the remote places in India plays a pivotal role in conserving …
