Ecology and Environment

India's premier environment and wildlife competitive film festival, CMS VATAVARAN will be organised from 06-10 Dec, 2011 at New Delhi.

Entries:

Entries are invited from environment and wildlife filmmakers for 10 Indian and 08 International categories.

Organizer: North East Centre for Environmental Education and Research (NECEER)

Venue: New Delhi

Topics:

• Floristic and faunal studies
• Human-Wildlife Conflict

It lays down in no uncertain terms the rights of citizens over the what in the West are called 'Commons' . Even the well-informed among us are not aware of their rights over such public spaces.

The Order states that :

Organizer: Center for People's Forestry

Venue: Center for People's Forestry, Secunderabad

Nature, Economy and Society - Understanding the Linkages

Organizer: Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS)

Venue: Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Begumpet, Hyderabad

Topics:

• Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services for Life and Human Well-being
• Accounting for Nature including indices, macro and micro approaches

Venue: Van Vadi, Vaara, Taluka Karjat, District Raigarh, Maharashtra

Description:

The Earth Building workshop at Van Vadi in December 2010, attended by about 30, was greatly appreciated by all. Half the participants stayed on for the shram utsav (work camp) following the workshop. Over the next week, we cobbled one small store room cum changing room to half height. The work that remains: adding rafters and a clay tile roof; adding a wooden (or grill) door that can be locked and final plastering, finishing, sculpting, add-ons, etc.

Organizer: University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK

Venue: Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, UAS, GKVK, Bengaluru

Topics:

• Forest bio-resources - Diversity and Documentation
• Forest bio-resources - NTFPs, Medicinal plants and livelihood

Organizer: Institute of Forest Genetic and Tree Breeding

Venue: Institute of Forest Genetic and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore

The Western Ghats Biodiversity Open Collaborative Information System or Western Ghats Portal (WGP) is a joint project between French Institute of Pondicherry and Strand Life Sciences, representing India Biodiversity Portal. WGP is being funded by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. CEPF is a global programme that works towards safeguarding biodiversity hotspots by providing strategic assistance to non-governmental organizations, community groups and other civil society partners. ATREE is the Regional Implementation Team to implement the conservation strategy outlined in the Western Ghats Ecosystem profile in partnership with CEPF.

Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWEA) is conducting a Wildlife Census for Nilgiris North, Nilgiris South and Gudalur Forest Divisions from February 25 -27. This is a count for all mammals.

Over 100 volunteers are needed for this count which is simultaneously done in  three Forest divisions with support and guidance of the Forest Department.