WWF, Intel start wetland reforestation project
LONG AN – The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Intel Products launched a joint effort to restore habitats in the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve last week, with the goal of planting more than 12,000 native
View ArticleVembanad lake may vanish in 50 years: study
Climate change could aggravate threats posed by land use changes Vembanad Lake, the hub of backwater tourism in Kerala and the largest wetland system in the country, may cease to exist in another 50
View ArticleWetland authority seeks more time for report
BHOPAL: State wetland authority has sought more time from the central zone bench of National Green Tribunal to file its reply on actions taken by stakeholders to regulate activities at Bhoj Wetland Ramsar
View ArticleLiving Planet Report 2016: risk and resilience in a new era
Global wildlife could plunge to a 67 per cent level of decline in just the fifty-year period ending this decade as a result of human activities, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016. The report
View ArticleLet’s talk about groundwater, our water lifeline in the future
The need of the hour is ecological management of rivers looking at them as living, dynamic systems which needs to be people centric Parineeta Dandekar is the associate co-ordinator of SANDRP and member
View ArticleAction Plan on Climate Change to get momentum in Kerala: CM Vijayan
CPI(M)-led LDF government in Kerala on Monday decided to give a momentum to its ambitious Action Plan on Climate Change to prepare the coastal state to face the adverse impacts of the phenomenon. Chief
View ArticleToward a national eco-compensation regulation in the People’s Republic of China
The Asian Development Bank and the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) undertook a study on eco-compensation regulations development in the country, on which
View ArticleCoastal leatherback turtles reveal conservation hotspot
Previous studies have shown that the world’s largest reptile – the leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea – conducts flexible foraging migrations that can cover thousands of kilometres
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding building of bridges as part of...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Mishra Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 25/11/2016. This application has been moved to pass directions to permit the NHAI for carrying
View ArticleQuestion raised in Lok Sabha on National Wetland Conservation Programme,...
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Wetland Conservation Programme, 29/11/2016. The National Wetland Conservation Programme (NWCP) has been merged in February, 2013 with another scheme of National
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding ecology and health of wetlands...
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Anand Arya Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/12/2016 regarding ecology and health of wetlands in India. NGT directs Central Wetland Regulatory
View ArticleAnalysis of heavy metals accumulation in mangroves and associated mangroves...
This study is to collect the samples of true mangrove plant, associated mangrove plants, water and sediments from Ennore Mangrove Ecosystem and the samples are analyzed for heavy metals accumulation.
View ArticleWaterbird census to help learn health of wetlands
Pune: The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) along with Wetlands International is organizing Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) to count waterbirds all over India. While the census would be held from January
View ArticleWhat’s killing the world’s shorebirds?
Researchers brave polar bears, mosquitoes and gull attacks in the Canadian Arctic to investigate an alarming die off.
View ArticleOrder of the National Green Tribunal regarding the status of wetland/water...
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Pawan Kumar Somani Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 05/01/2017. The applicant (Pawan Kumar Somani) has prayed
View ArticleOnly 115 wetlands? Miffed SC gives Govt a week for fact file
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cautioned the Centre against “hoodwinking” it on the number of wetlands and lakes in the country and set a week deadline for it to come out with a “holistic” report on the
View ArticleExperts push for wetland shield
World Wetlands Day was celebrated in style at Yamuna Biodiversity Park (YBP), where experts and students discussed how to conserve wetlands in the national capital. Observed every year on February 2,
View ArticleTanzanian Study shows that involving communities in mangrove management makes...
Mangrove forests that incorporate local communities into their management fare better, a new study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia and Tanzania released today on
View ArticleGovernment to raise awareness on wetland conservation
The ministry has also asked all the state governments to celebrate the World Wetlands Day in their respective states in a befitting manner. The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) under the Environment
View ArticleActivists mull moving HC to save wetlands
NAVI MUMBAI: As nature lovers celebrated World Wetlands Day on Thursday, environmentalists stressed on stopping rampant destruction of mangroves. "Despite several complaints to the authorities, the
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