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					<title>Understanding the true value of forest ecosystem services</title>
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					<pubDate>20 Aug 2026 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sharmila Vaidyanathan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Arathimenon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Carbon Offset, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change Mitigation, Conservation, Ecosystem services, Environment, Forests, Global Warming, Natural Resources, Nature-based Climate Solutions, Payment for Ecosystem Services, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[India’s forests provide annual ecosystem services worth $2.5 trillion, highlights a new study published in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. Titled Contribution of forest ecosystem services in India using meta-regression approach, the study reveals that the per-hectare value of ecosystem benefits from India’s forests is about $31,000 per year. Among forest types, tropical dry deciduous forests [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[India’s forests provide annual ecosystem services worth $2.5 trillion, highlights a new study published in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. Titled Contribution of forest ecosystem services in India using meta-regression approach, the study reveals that the per-hectare value of ecosystem benefits from India’s forests is about $31,000 per year. Among forest types, tropical dry deciduous forests provide the highest economic value at $703 billion, annually. Defined as the direct and indirect benefits that bolster human wellbeing and survival, ecosystem services are further classified into provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. With regard to forests, provisioning services include goods obtained from forest lands, such as timber, food and medicinal plants. Regulating services include carbon sequestration and soil protection, while cultural services include recreational benefits and sacred groves, among others. Supporting services include services such as providing habitats for different species. The authors also examined the economic value of individual services and found that India’s forests provide provisioning, regulating and cultural services worth about $9.64, $12.15 and $17.17 billion, respectively, every year. Supporting services were not analysed in the study. While there is a growing interest in understanding the economic impacts of forest ecosystem services, mainly fuelled by the rise in awareness about the role forests play in climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation, the study highlights the crucial need for incorporating these services into policies and forest conservation measures for better results. “Policymakers increasingly recognise that many of the benefits provided by forests, such as carbon storage, watershed and drought protection, are not&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2026/08/understanding-the-true-value-of-forest-ecosystem-services/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>[Interview] Climate change talks do not take nature into consideration in its economics: Partha Dasgupta</title>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2023 09:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[S. Gopikrishna Warrier]]>
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						<![CDATA[S. Gopikrishna Warrier]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Connections, Environomy, and Nature-based Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global and India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecosystem services, Environmental Economics, Interviews, and Payment for Ecosystem Services]]>
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							<![CDATA[The international climate change negotiations are built on a wrong economic construct, according to eminent environmental economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Speaking at length to Mongabay-India, Sir Partha explained that the economic model being used for climate change negotiations is built [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The international climate change negotiations are built on a wrong economic construct, according to eminent environmental economist Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Speaking at length to Mongabay-India, Sir Partha explained that the economic model being used for climate change negotiations is built on the conventional GDP-based growth model practised in countries across the globe. It adds the element of climate on top of this model and if enough money is spent to mitigate the emissions, then global economic growth can continue unabated. However, this is a flawed understanding, since it does not take into consideration the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by nature. Sir Partha was invited by the Treasury Department of the UK Government to review nature’s contribution to economics. The Economics of Biodiversity, also known more famously as the Dasgupta Review, which was published in February 2021, has resulted in natural capital accounting being accepted by many countries – the UK, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. The Review also increased the awareness on taking natural capital into consideration in economic considerations. “The idea is to look beyond flow accounts – like the GDP – to stock accounts, looking at natural assets and ecosystem. The accounts will look at how these assets look like today when compared to a year ago, or 10 years ago,” he said. The discipline of environmental and ecological economics has been growing across the world, and especially so&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2023/12/climate-change-talks-partha-dasgupta-cop-28-nature-economics-ecosystemservices/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>[Workshop] Environmental economics: Valuing and financing climate action</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2023/11/workshop-environmental-economics-valuing-and-financing-climate-action/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2023 13:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Team Mongabay-India]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Priyanka Shankar]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carbon Market]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Environomy]]>
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							<![CDATA[India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecosystem services, Environmental Politics, and Payment for Ecosystem Services]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay-India, in collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) is conducting a series of workshops on the intersection of journalism, environment and economics — “Environmental Economics for Journalists”. Though economics plays a central role in the dynamics of environmental decision making, there is not much nuanced discussion on economics in the environment media [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay-India, in collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) is conducting a series of workshops on the intersection of journalism, environment and economics — “Environmental Economics for Journalists”. Though economics plays a central role in the dynamics of environmental decision making, there is not much nuanced discussion on economics in the environment media space in India. While economics and environment form seemingly disparate beats, we feel there is a need to bridge the gap and build a body of work that incorporates economics in environmental journalism. Mongabay-India has reported several stories that connect the beats of environment and economy, as part of the series ‘Environomy’. Mongabay-India and INSEE are teaming up to conduct four workshops in 2023-24, and we welcome journalists and copy editors to use this opportunity to enhance their understanding in this interesting subject. We encourage journalists and copy editors from across the country and South Asia to attend these workshops (Check the eligibility criteria for more details). This workshop will be conducted online and is free of charge. Though the medium of instruction will be English, journalists and freelancers working with regional language media are also welcome to apply. After the workshop, the participants are encouraged to explore and pitch stories in different formats – text/ video/ infographics. Read more: Without considering green GDP, the budget’s claim of green growth is weak The Conference of Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP28) that is set to happen in December in Dubai, will foreground the discussions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2023/11/workshop-environmental-economics-valuing-and-financing-climate-action/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Studies highlight local perception of ecosystem services</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2023/07/studies-highlight-local-perception-of-ecosystem-services/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2023 11:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Arathi Menon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Aditi Tandon]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food Systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Environomy and The Indian Forest Story]]>
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							<![CDATA[India]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community based conservation, Conservation, Ecosystem services, Environmental Economics, and Payment for Ecosystem Services]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the last few decades, nature conservation across the world has increasingly relied on measuring the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided by nature, in a bid to highlight the need for conservation measures to support essential goods and services that nature offers for human well-being. While assigning economic values to important ecosystem services [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the last few decades, nature conservation across the world has increasingly relied on measuring the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided by nature, in a bid to highlight the need for conservation measures to support essential goods and services that nature offers for human well-being. While assigning economic values to important ecosystem services makes it convenient to design policy frameworks for the better management of natural resources, recent studies are proposing adding a new dimension to the conventional evaluation of ecosystem services — sociocultural values or the non-material well-being provided by the ecosystem and the importance assigned to them by the people. The studies advocate for understanding the priorities of local communities — the main stakeholders — and the sociocultural linkages they consider valuable from an ecosystem. Two studies, one from the Eastern Himalayas and the other from the Western Ghats, probed what local communities perceived as valuable ecosystem services. Freshwater emerged as one of the most valuable natural commodities in the Himalayan study while the Western Ghats study found communities largely valued provisioning services, especially the non-timber forest produce (NTFP). Focus Group Discussion (FGD) in Upper Tangta, Kalimpong, West Bengal. Photo by Diwakar Gurung. What communities want The study from the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas surveyed 31 villages. In multiple focus group discussions with indigenous people and local communities, freshwater emerged as the most valuable natural commodity for the people. This was surprising because they were expecting the village residents to prioritise firewood or fodder, said Sarala Khaling of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2023/07/studies-highlight-local-perception-of-ecosystem-services/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indian government proposes a 10-year plan to protect birds</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2020/02/indian-government-proposes-a-10-year-plan-to-protect-birds/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Feb 2020 13:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eco Hope]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Ecology, Ecosystem services, Endangered species, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Protected Areas, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[On February 4, 2020, images of a rare oriental darter struggling to free its beak from a piece of plastic went viral. The incident was reported from Palwal in Haryana which, according to the news report, has lost more than half of its wetlands in 30 years (1970s-2000) due to land-use change like agricultural expansion. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On February 4, 2020, images of a rare oriental darter struggling to free its beak from a piece of plastic went viral. The incident was reported from Palwal in Haryana which, according to the news report, has lost more than half of its wetlands in 30 years (1970s-2000) due to land-use change like agricultural expansion. In June 2018, in a similar incident, in a wetland just outside Delhi, a black-necked stork had its beak sealed with a plastic ring around it. Its photo had gone viral. The bird was later rescued after extensive efforts by forest authorities.  Such incidents where birds are impacted by trash and plastic waste could be reduced as part of a new plan to conserve birds and control dumping of waste into areas like wetlands that are bird habitats.  With the focus on tigers and elephants, conservation and protection of birds take a backseat in India. Now, a 10-year plan proposed by the Indian government hopes to help in the conservation of birds and their habitats in India.  The draft &#8211; Visionary perspective plan (2020-2030) for the conservation of avian diversity, their ecosystems, habitats and landscapes in the country &#8211; was put in the public domain by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on February 3, 2020, seeking comments from all stakeholders. The plan proposes a series of short-term, medium-term and long-term plans to protect the rare and endangered species of birds, start species recovery programmes of critically endangered ones, introduce landscape approach to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/02/indian-government-proposes-a-10-year-plan-to-protect-birds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Save tiger reserves and reap trillions in economic benefits, says report</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2019/08/save-tiger-reserves-reap-trillions-in-economic-benefits-says-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Aug 2019 12:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment and Elections]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecosystem services, Environmental Economics, National Parks, Payment for Ecosystem Services, Protected Areas, Tigers, and Wildlife Sanctuary]]>
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							<![CDATA[FOIN-2019]]>
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							<![CDATA[Making a case for the conservation of tiger reserves in India, a study has worked out the monetary value of the reserves and deduced that for every rupee invested, the returns amount to an average of Rs. 2,500 per tiger reserve.  A latest government study that calculated the economic valuation of 10 of 50 tiger [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Making a case for the conservation of tiger reserves in India, a study has worked out the monetary value of the reserves and deduced that for every rupee invested, the returns amount to an average of Rs. 2,500 per tiger reserve.  A latest government study that calculated the economic valuation of 10 of 50 tiger reserves of the country, reveals that for every rupee spent on their management, the reserves provided benefits ranging from lowest of Rs 346.7 to highest of Rs 7,488 within and outside the tiger reserves. Mongabay-India analysed these benefits for all the ten reserves and found that, on average, it translated to Rs 2,500 per rupee for each tiger reserve. The study looked at tangible and intangible flow benefits that result from investment in tiger reserves, including employment generation, fishing, fodder, fuelwood, carbon sequestration, water provisioning, water purification, sediment retention/soil conservation, nutrient retention, biological control, pollination, gas regulation, climate regulation, gene pool protection, moderation of extreme events, cultural heritage, recreation, spiritual tourism and more. The study “Economic valuation of tiger reserves in India: A value + approach” by the Centre for Ecological Services Management (CESM) of the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM) in collaboration with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) analysed economic valuation of 27 ecosystem services in 10 tiger reserves. These were Anamalai (Tamil Nadu), Bandipur (Karnataka), Dudhwa (Uttar Pradesh), Melghat (Maharashtra), Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam (Andhra Pradesh), Pakke (Arunachal Pradesh), Palamu (Jharkhand), Panna (Madhya Pradesh), Similipal (Odisha), and Valmiki (Bihar). In January 2015, a similar&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/08/save-tiger-reserves-reap-trillions-in-economic-benefits-says-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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