A four-day global citizen science effort where cities document urban biodiversity, building valuable data through public participation
Five sacred groves have been selected under the pilot project initiated by the Kerala State Biodiversity Board. Over a hundred native and threatened plant species have been identified and nearly 3,000 saplings will be planted at the selected sites
APSBB Chairman N. Vijay Kumar says initiative will channel marine resource revenues to fishermen while promoting biodiversity conservation
The United Nations very much relied on China for its environmental protection role, including its major funding for biodiversity conservation in the Global South, the organisation’s environment chief said on Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of the Regional Ecological Summit in Kazakhstan, Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said that “China has always been an active player in multilateralism”. Andersen said that within UNEP, they “very much rely on...
From Bengaluru’s urban forests to the Northeast’s biodiversity hotspots, enthusiasts and experts are turning butterfly-watching into a powerful gateway to ecology, education, and sustainable travel
Environmental activists strongly oppose the attempts made by the State and Centre to clear and implement projects in the Western Ghats despite knowing the adverse impact they would cause to the biodiversity hotspot.
Open natural ecosystems, low-intensity rainfed farming and pastoralism have been key to sustaining species such as striped hyena, sloth bear, blackbuck, and Indian Grey Wolf