Much of the recent emphasis on planting trees comes from international agencies from the Global North, and assumes that tree-less areas store little carbon.
There’s a tree-planting frenzy everywhere you look. In August 2019, the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India announced that more than a million Indians had planted 220 million trees on a single day. A month earlier, Ethiopia had made a similar declaration: more than 350 million trees had been planted in one day. “Always […]
It is estimated that the Amrabad Tiger Reserve has about 20 tigers. | Davidraju / Wikimedia Commons
Between protecting the interests of the tigers and Chenchu Adivasis and pursuing uranium mining in Telangana state, the former has won for now. The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, Hyderabad under the Department of Atomic Energy has decided to “shelve” the project to drill boreholes in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve to prospect for the yellowcake, a form of uranium ore. Uranium is used as the basic fuel to generate nuclear power.
In 2019, an expert panel on forests of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change had recommended in-principle approval for a proposal by the Department of Atomic Energy for survey and exploration of uranium over 83 sq km in the tiger reserve.
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With an eye for future conservation
With an eye for future conservation
Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Feb 1, 2021, 06:00 IST
Two organisations, working in the area of
conservation of animals, have come together to join a one-of-a-kind MSc Program in Wildlife Biology and Conservation programme offered by the city-based National Center for Biological Sciences (
NCBS).
The program is aimed at producing well-trained wildlife biologists and conservation practitioners. Subject experts will provide
students with a strong foundation in science that will help them design, implement, and monitor a
range of ecological studies and conservation projects.
“A diversity of partners will bring a diversity of expertise and conservation viewpoints to bear on the program and enable a wider range of engagements in conservation research and capacity building,” said