Swaminathan favours more fertiliser trees for Green
India
NEW DELHI: Agriculture scientist Mr M S Swaminathan on Friday
said that the government should encourage planting of more fertiliser trees in
its mission for a ‘Green India’ to reap various benefits, including better soil
health. “The Government has initiated Greening of India programme with the aim
of planting more trees. My view is that instead of planting any trees, plant
fertiliser trees,” said Mr Swaminathan at a seminar on nitrogen. Under the
National Action Plan on Climate Change, the government had mooted a “National
Mission for a Green India” as one of the eight missions. Under the programme,
12.86 lakh hectares (LH) comprising of 7.22 LH of degraded forest land and 5.64
LH of no n—forest land were identified for raising compensatory afforestation in
lieu of diversion of 11.10 LH forest land for non—forest purposes. ……..……..
Indian wetlands centre judged best in class
Posted on 03 December 2010
Keoladeo
National Park, India: The Salim Ali Visitor Interpretation
Centre in Keoladeo National Park in Rhajasthan,
India has been judged Asia’s best wetland centre. The award, conferred by
Wetlands Link International at its third international conference in Malaysia,
recognized the range of programs and the depth of community involvement in the
four year old centre. “Salim Ali Visitor Interpretation Centre has been awarded the award due to its
great range of work, from education sessions with schools, to outreach work to
local communities excluded from the park, and even working with local people
working in the park itself,” said Wetlands Link International head Chris
Rostron in giving the award. The centre in central northern India a
partnership between WWF-India, ………………………………..
India supports
regional water management protocol
Updated on Friday, December
03, 2010, 19:30
Singapore: India
on Thursday supported a regional protocol comprising a dispute resolution
mechanism for water management in the Himalayan
River Basin countries, amid concerns
over China's dam-building
activities in Tibet. India's views were presented by Congress MP
Vijay Darda, its delegate at a workshop here on the 'Benefit of Cooperation in
the Himalayan River Basin Countries of Bangladesh, China,
India and Nepal'. ...........
Whose steel? Who’s stealing?
The Rs. 52,000 crore POSCO
project has the figures to dazzle, but who’s going to profit from it? TUSHA
MITTAL finds it is not going to be Odisha’s villagers
Mayawati's NOIDA park-cum-memorial project gets
Supreme Court nod
Published: Friday, Dec 3,
2010, 21:07 IST
Place: New Delhi
| Agency: PTI
EU money to protect mangrove forests in Bangladesh
By Mizan Rahman
Dhaka
The European Union (EU) has
provided Bangladesh
with about 900mn taka ($10.25mn) as grant for protection and efficient
management of the Sundarbans Reserve Forest (SRF), the world’s single largest
mangrove forest. The Forest Department of the Ministry of Environment and
Forests will be the agency to implement the five-year project designed for
better protecting people and nature in the Sundarbans………………
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