Ecology and Environment

Twenty years after ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity, and ten years after promulgating the Biological Diversity Act, India continues to use doublespeak in dealing with its rivers and their biodiversity

This document is a guideline provided by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, under the Ministry of Environment and Forest. These guidelines are to be followed for the conservation of tigers in buffer and core area of tiger reserves.

The blind pursuit of economic growth is coming at massive costs, both to natural ecosystems and to hundreds of millions of ecosystem-dependent people, who are being affected by mining, dams, power plants, ports, industries, and other such projects.

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The document by Department of Mines and Geology, Government of Rajasthan has eight chapters, which are as follows:

This draft has been prepared under Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP) sanctioned by Government of Rajasthan.

The economy of fishing among the traditional fisherfolk of Kerala is based on three operations such as harvesting or catching of the fish, the processing of fish and the marketing of fish.

Madakas are one of the fast disappearing traditional rainwater harvesting structures found in the laterite belts of Karnataka and Kerala. They are naturally occuring depressions with high terrain on the three sides where water from the surrounding laterite slopes, mainly runoff from the rains, is accumulated.