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Plea to remove ghost nets from Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve

Plea to remove ‘ghost nets’ from Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice to the Centre and the State in a public interest litigation petition that sought a direction to the authorities concerned to collect and dispose of ‘ghost nets’ (fishing nets lost or abandoned at sea) from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice M.M. Sundresh ordered notice in the public interest litigation petition filed by K. Pushpavanam of Madurai. The petitioner complained that the ghost nets were responsible for trapping and killing millions of marine animals every year.

Winning projects announced for the Mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on island and coastal biosphere reserves call

Winning projects announced for the Mitigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on island and coastal biosphere reserves call 13/01/2021 Share this article In order to foster island and coastal biosphere reserves as sites applying innovative solutions in response to the pandemic, the World Network of Island and Coastal Biosphere Reserves (WNICBR) launched a call for projects aimed at mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this territories. Up to four projects are to be granted with a maximum amount of 15.000 USD each, to be implemented by the end of 2021. Thirty-two proposals from 17 countries were received, and the good quality of these demonstrate that the WNICBR is a dynamic and active network with great potential to develop interesting initiatives and resilient models to address the current crisis.

Winning projects announced for Mitigation of impact of COVID-19 pandemic on island and coastal biosphere reserves call

Date Time Share Winning projects announced for ‘Mitigation of impact of COVID-19 pandemic on island and coastal biosphere reserves’ call Up to four projects are to be granted with a maximum amount of 15.000 USD each, to be implemented by the end of 2021. Thirty-two proposals from 17 countries were received, and the good quality of these demonstrate that the WNICBR is a dynamic and active network with great potential to develop interesting initiatives and resilient models to address the current crisis. The evaluation committee, made up of representatives from the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme Secretariat, the WNICBR secretariats of Jeju (Republic of Korea) and Menorca (Spain) and the Spanish MAB National Committee, after assessing the proposals, has selected the following projects:

Making waves: the hit Indian island radio station leading climate conversations

Thu 7 Jan 2021 01.30 EST Last modified on Thu 14 Jan 2021 10.01 EST Selvarani Mari is a fisher and seaweed collector who lives on Pamban Island of Tamil Nadu, on the southernmost tip of India. Every day she helps her husband cast the fishing nets, maintains rafts for cultivating seaweed, and dives into the ocean to gather sargassum. But she always makes time to listen to the radio. Mari, 33, and her friends and family all unfailingly tune into Kadal Osai on 90.4FM, India’s first local radio station for a fishing community. With guests including from older people from the villages sharing their fishing wisdom or chatting about the climate crisis, the station has become an integral part of local life, featuring gossip, jokes, old songs and news on fish prices and sea conditions. Gayathri Usman, head of Kadal Osai, fell in love with the station when she visited the area, and stayed on to run it.

How a retired Indian professor took on a mining giant – and won

Thoothukudi, India – She spearheaded a decades-long campaign against a copper smelter over alleged environmental contamination in the south Indian seaside town of Thoothukudi. Sterlite Copper, the Indian subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, a global mining and metals conglomerate, was forced to shut its plant in 2018, thanks to a sustained and spirited fight led by 67-year-old teacher-turned activist Fatima Babu. The plant’s shuttering, said Fatima, “has boosted the morale of the townspeople, which is a very very big thing for us”. “But we would want Sterlite to pay for the damage it has done.” On May 22, 2018, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Thoothukudi against a proposed expansion of Sterlite’s 400,000-tonne annual capacity smelter, but the police opened fire, killing at least 13 protesters. It was the deadliest environmental protest of the year in the country. The police justified their action saying the protesters pelted stones and burned their

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