Tag: Biodiversity

Srinagar:One day field cum Bio-Diversity Exhibition was organized for farmers of District Budgam in collaboration with KVK Budgam. The program was inaugurated by HVC SKUAST-K Shalimar alongwith directors from SKUAST-K, Director CITH and SDM Doodhpathri. ADR, DARS, Rangreth gave the brief overview about the programme, Honible VC interacted with ...

Chennai:India has consistently been at the forefront in taking action on biodiversity conservation, protection, restoration and enrichment, and has set the bar even higher through the updated targets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. Addressing the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministerial Meeting here via video conferencing, the ...

Tone Mickrow, a member of the indigenous Idu Mishmi community, lives a few hours’ drive from Etalin – the proposed site of what has been envisaged as India’s largest dam. Members of his community were elated that the government temporarily denied forest clearance to the Etalin hydroelectric project in ...

The latest report by the UN’s climate advisory panel has once again highlighted the need for urgent action against human-induced climate change, noting that the tools to prevent climate catastrophe already exist. While hopes of limiting global warming at 1.5C are rapidly fading, climate experts stress that “every additional ...

Botanist Pervaiz Dar spent a good amount of time in 2012 and 2017 squatting and walking along roadsides in Kashmir, including at mountain pass Sinthan Top, surveying invasive alien plant species – plants that do not originally call Kashmir home but are now rapidly spreading into the region and ...

Marine species across planet Earth are in the throes of a perfect storm which is accelerating their decline, according to an update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list issued at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit on Friday.Illegal and unsustainable fishing, fossil fuel exploration, the ...

In 2017, scientists described a new species of great apes – the Tapanuli orangutan. The species, found in the Batang Toru ecosystem of North Sumatara, Indonesia was listed as critically endangered soon after.The population of the species has declined by 83% over the past 75 years, largely due to ...

Looking to nature for inspiration, drug research, genetically modified crops or other products is nothing new — research groups and major corporations do it all the time. But discoveries based on traditional Indigenous knowledge or the wealth of biodiversity in developing countries can end up being exported and patented without ...

  Srinagar: A strategic meeting on ‘Biodiversity: Current Status, Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation’ was held at the University of Kashmir on Thursday.The day-long meeting was organised under the aegis of J&K Chapter of Himalayan Knowledge Network (HKN) and was attended by academics from the University of Kashmir, some other ...

Two lecturers design ‘Biodiversity Wall’ to motivate students ‘Such initiatives will motivate young students towards innovations’ Umaisar Gull Ganie Anantnag, Nov 03 (KNO): Claiming to be the first of its kind, two South Kashmir teachers said that they have designed a ‘Biodiversity Wall’ which will help the students to understand ...