Enviro chief challenges India on green development
NEW
DELHI (AP) — India’s environment minister has blocked the construction of
mines, power plants and dams. He’s held up a new airport and describes diesel
cars as criminal. He’s even taken Harry Potter to task for promoting threatened
owls as pets. Just a year and a half into the job, Jairam Ramesh has turned a once-marginal
Environment Ministry into a powerful gatekeeper on India’s road to prosperity.
He’s been called an eco-crusader, a “Dr. No” of development and even a buffoon,
angering ...................................
Climate Talks Back $100 Billion Aid Fund, Forest
Protection; No Kyoto Deal
By Jim
Efstathiou Jr. and Alex Morales -Envoys at United Nations talks agreed to
a package aimed at limiting global warming by protecting forests, advising
nations on adapting to higher temperatures and opening a $100 billion Green
Climate Fund. The group representing 193 nations set aside differences between
rich and poor nations about how to limit greenhouse gas emissions after 2012,
when restrictions in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol expire. That issue may roil the
talks next year. “There is still a long journey ahead, a difficult journey,” Connie Hedegaard, the European Commission envoy to the
talks in Cancun, Mexico .......................
Climate stand shift unacceptable: Indian opposition
Published:
11/12/2010 at 01:01 AM
Online
news: Asia
Critics
accused India's environment minister on Friday of selling out to wealthy
nations at climate change talks in Mexico by saying New Delhi might accept
binding emission cut targets. Ramesh on Thursday offered an olive branch to try
to break the logjam in the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, saying
for the first time India could consider entering a legally binding emissions
reduction agreement. India, the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter,
has until now held the burden of cuts should be on developed countries and that
it cannot commit to binding targets because they might hurt its ability to lift
hundreds of millions of its population out of poverty. But as diplomacy
intensified with the talks entering ...................
‘India, Brazil could lead the way in the
bioindustries model'
Interview
with Dr. Carlos Nobre, climate scientist.
Dr.
Carlos Nobre is one of Brazil's best known climate scientists. He is the
Director of the Center for Earth System Science and Senior Scientist at the
National Institute for Space Research (INPE) of Brazil, Executive Secretary of
the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change (Rede CLIMA),
Scientific Director of the National Institute for Climate Change Research, and
Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Nobre's work
focuses on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system. He chaired the Large
Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), an international
research initiative led by Brazil from 1996 through 2002. LBA is designed to .....................
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Wildlife experts oppose blind
promotion of eco-tourism
Published:
Saturday, Dec 11, 2010, 9:08 IST
By Bosky Khanna | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA |
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With
pressure mounting on forest land and the government keen on promoting
eco-tourism, wildlife experts and forest department officials say that there
is an urgent need to review the 2008 report on carrying capacity in national
parks and sanctuaries. Conservationists point out that many of the
recommendations made in the report under the National Tiger Conservation
Authority (NTCA) are yet to be implemented. The government, on its part,
wants to promote eco-tourism to .............................
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Sanctuary for gibbons
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Jorhat,
Dec. 10: Fourteen families of hoolock gibbon, trapped in an isolated
cluster of trees near Roing in Arunachal Pradesh, will be translocated to
Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, close to the Sino-Indian border soon. “The only way
to save these gibbons will be to transfer them to another location where
there is enough food for them to survive,” said N.V.K. Ashraf, the chief
operating officer of the Wildlife Trust of India. The initiative to
translocate these gibbons ......
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Out of the Buxa
December 14, 2010 7:33:52 PM
The tiger may have reappeared at this old reserve of West Bengal, set up in 1982-83 and declared a National Park in 1992, but for Sunil Mukhopadhyay, the big cat lurks in the shadows while elephants and rhinos steal the show Manindra Sarkar, the beat officer at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, is a sort of local celebrity. He had taken first pictures of the tiger that has put this park back on the tourist map. He was on a routine reconnaissance of pugmarks and scat and tracking the vicinity where roars had been heard by guards for days but had scarcely revealed the shadow of its king. Unofficial estimates had already put the number of big cats to 15, indicating a return to innocence.................
December 14, 2010 7:33:52 PM
The tiger may have reappeared at this old reserve of West Bengal, set up in 1982-83 and declared a National Park in 1992, but for Sunil Mukhopadhyay, the big cat lurks in the shadows while elephants and rhinos steal the show Manindra Sarkar, the beat officer at the Buxa Tiger Reserve, is a sort of local celebrity. He had taken first pictures of the tiger that has put this park back on the tourist map. He was on a routine reconnaissance of pugmarks and scat and tracking the vicinity where roars had been heard by guards for days but had scarcely revealed the shadow of its king. Unofficial estimates had already put the number of big cats to 15, indicating a return to innocence.................
Focus on biodiversity for next generation
TNN, Dec
12, 2010, 03.44pm IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Focus-on-biodiversity-for-next-generation/articleshow/7085151.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Focus-on-biodiversity-for-next-generation/articleshow/7085151.cms
'India ranks 10th in world in plant diversity'
Press
Trust Of India
Ranchi, December 12, 2010
Ranchi, December 12, 2010
India
ranks fourth in Asia and tenth in the world in plant diversity, the Birsa
Agricultural University (BAU) Vice Chancellor, N N Singh, has said. "India
boasts of 45,000 plants and 91,000 animal species," Singh ........................
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Maharashtra to boost bamboo industry
with Central aid
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Press
Trust of India / Pune December 11, 2010, 11:55 IST
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An
ambitious plan is afoot in Maharashtra to utilise a Rs 4 crore Central
assistance to boost bamboo plantation and turn it into a means of livelihood
for target groups.
The State Social Forestry Department, which received the first instalment of Rs 2 crore recently as part of the grant under National Bamboo Mission (NBM), is currently engaged in devising methods to grow plantations and train farmers, NGOs and self-help groups (SHGs) to generate a living from the bamboo industry, making it an organised one. "The funds received by us are to be utilised by March 2011. In addition to extending the existing bamboo cover on the .......................
The State Social Forestry Department, which received the first instalment of Rs 2 crore recently as part of the grant under National Bamboo Mission (NBM), is currently engaged in devising methods to grow plantations and train farmers, NGOs and self-help groups (SHGs) to generate a living from the bamboo industry, making it an organised one. "The funds received by us are to be utilised by March 2011. In addition to extending the existing bamboo cover on the .......................
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Developing SDSS for forest governance
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A
comprehensive SDSS can enable better data sharing and analysis critical for
effective forest governance
Manish P Kale, Bishwarup Banerjee, Nikhil Lele IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL warming, there is an urgent need to protect and manage the forest resources. Availability of relevant and accurate information in standard formats at the level of forest division is one of the major constraints for proper management and protection of forests. Forest departments require different spatial and nonspatial information to take effective management decisions. Spatial information include administrative boundaries, road, settlements, crime locations, vegetation type, terrain, soil etc., whereas, non-spatial information include different records including village micro planning documents, working plans, plantation records, Joint Forest Management (JFM) committee records etc. To use such vast information for management and conservation purposes, an efficient system which can store and retrieve the information and carry out different user defined analysis for taking well informed decisions is needed. Need for Spatial Decision Support Systems Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) use inherent capabilities of GIS which provides better analytic capabilities and visualisation in the form of tailor-made maps. This facilitates decision-making to a great extent. In a typical SDSS for forest management, the vision/need comes from the forestry experts, which ultimately gets ........ |
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