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Local Communities Key To India’s Wildlife Conservation

16 May 202216 May 2022 Oishimaya Sen Nag 0 Comments

In a country with a burgeoning human population, creating or extending such protected areas is not feasible. Several Indian communities, like Bishnoi, Maldhari, Mumbai Adivasi, and people of Sundarbans, have deep-rooted beliefs that allow them to live with wild animals, including large predators. Such an attitude toward wildlife has allowed the world’s second-most populous country to protect and preserve its biodiversity to a significant extent. As Indians, we all have a duty and a role to play in fostering community-based conservation in our country to allow our rich biodiversity to thrive in the coming decades.

Agriculture Editor's Pick Environment India

Fishing in Troubled Waters: Lake Kolleru

29 September 202129 September 2021 Vaithianathan Kannan 0 Comments Aquaculture, Conservation, Kolleru

“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent thinking”, said Aldo Leopold. Lake Kolleru is showing signs of poor water quality and habitat deterioration. There is an urgent need to ascertain the levels of habitat destruction, over-exploitation, and encroachments in the once peerless fishermen’s paradise and birds’ heaven.

Career Environment Society

Wildlife Biologists: A Case for Inducting Them for Scientific Management of Forests

3 September 20213 September 2021 Vaithianathan Kannan 1 Comment Ecological wealth, environment, nature, wildlife

Wildlife biologists can save India’s ecology by bringing in scientific know-how to assist the administration in the scientific management of forests. The wildlife biologists can be absorbed by the Forest Departments as biologists, endangered species specialists, and conservation education officers. Inducting new services will not interfere with the power and administration of our current forest management system.
The Union and State Governments should build confidence on this matter in view of the changing roles in present-day science.

Protect the Protectors of Ecological Wealth

Protect the Protectors of Indian Ecological Wealth

11 June 202111 June 2021 Oishimaya Sen Nag 1 Comment COVID, Ecological wealth, Forest, frontline workers

The second wave of the pandemic has claimed many of these valuable employees of the IFS ranging in rank from senior officers to daily wagers. But unfortunately, although the forest departments of several protected areas have requested the administration to include foresters in the list of frontline workers, no action has been taken in this regard. Lack of concern towards the health of foresters reflects general apathy of policymakers. As a progressive nation, it is our duty to address the issues and protect the protectors of our ecological wealth.

The Song of Urban Forest

2 June 20211 June 2021 Tarun 1 Comment Forests, Urbanization

When will the birds in the backyard sing again, louder than our morning alarms, the bees do the bumble dance, and the vision of the landscape change with the greens around? We must be willing to give them a chance, not in the hit of a moment, not as a ‘cool’ thing to do but as a necessary step to build a better today and resilient future. Do we have the boldness to leap?

Is COVID Giving Birth to an Inevitable Climate-Crisis?

15 April 202115 April 2021 Nivya Talokar 4 Comments COVID, environment, Masks, Plastic

Imagine a future where the plastic in the ocean will weigh more than the fish in it, approximately 710 million metric tons of plastic dumped in the environment, and plastic eventually entering the human food chain. Unless the handling of COVID-19 induced plastic is not addressed on war-footing, the scenario will just worsen with rapid global warming and a major climate crisis.

Economy Environment

The Economics of Clean Energy

5 November 20205 November 2020 Devashish Saurav , TheRise.co.in 5 Comments Renewable Energy, sustainable development

India should use the opportunities available in clean energy sector to address the issue of unemployment. Owing to the availability of clean energy sources, India can also emerge as an exporter of energy in near future. It will help making India self-sufficient in many senses.

Culture Environment

Save Foresters, Save Forests: The Forgotten Service That Keeps India Alive

25 September 202025 September 2020 Oishimaya Sen Nag 3 Comments Forests, India

Protecting our green cover is one of the basic ways to mitigate the issue of climate change. Thus, forests and foresters need to be the focus of our attention now.

Biological Diversity and Biodiversity Governance

Environment Public Policy Society

3 Decades of Biodiversity Governance: Convention on Biological Diversity, Biological Diversity Act and ABS

22 September 202022 September 2020 Kunal Sharma 2 Comments Biodiversity, Biological diversity, Rio Summit

India has been a victim of misappropriation & biopiracy of our genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, many of which have been patented in other countries e.g. Neem and Haldi.

Environment Society

The Ignored Disaster of West Bengal – Bhagwangola II

9 September 20209 September 2020 Soham Chakraborty 3 Comments Disaster

The combined effect of riverbank erosion & flooding takes away lives and destroys properties every year in the villages of Bhagwangola II block in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Yet, the devastation is paid the required attention neither by the media nor the disaster management agencies.

India's wildlife needs right media attention

Culture Editor's Pick Environment

Why India’s Wildlife Needs The Right Kind Of Media Attention?

28 August 202028 August 2020 Oishimaya Sen Nag 6 Comments media, nature, wildlife

Media plays a crucial role in influencing public perception of wildlife. In the coming days, media’s role in portraying human-wildlife interactions in India will play a major role in deciding the fate of the country’s wildlife.

Has COVID-19 Taught Us the Humility to Tackle Climate Change?

14 August 202021 August 2020 Neethi V Rao 5 Comments Climate Change, Covid-19

COVID-19 is a global economic and humanitarian crisis that demonstrates the interconnectedness of humankind. It is also an ecological crisis, that has forcefully brought mother nature back in context.

Culture Editor's Pick Environment

Time to educate about nature!

8 August 202013 August 2020 Kunal Sharma 9 Comments education, environment, nature

Its time to educate about nature. A child trained in a conservation-oriented philosophy will seek to respect nature in the world he will grow up in and take steps to pass on the heritage to his/her forthcoming generations.
The reverence provided to elements of nature has decreased drastically because of the reduction of dependency and a perceived decrease of benefits to us, the humans.

Economy Editor's Pick Environment

Post-Corona Recovery through Employment Generation in Forestry

18 July 202021 August 2020 Kunal Sharma 7 Comments corona, economy, India

Linking employment generation schemes in the corona era to meeting our forestry targets could prove to be a game-changer for the nation’s poor in these trying times as well as provide a lifeline to our beleaguered forests.