Forests that heal: Medicinal plants as an ecosystem service
Five trillion US dollars. That's how much the overall international trade in medicinal plants and their products alone is expected to amount to by the year 2050. Estimates, as far…
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Your Environment This Week: The Bengal florican, forest encroachment & spillovers, declining fish catch
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one. To receive a weekly email with a roundup of our stories, please sign-up for our newsletter. “There is no fish in…
Growing trees on farms a win-win for farmers and sustainability
Come monsoon, Sardara Singh looks forward to planting Melia composita trees (a wild relative of neem) in his seven-acre plot embedded in an agroforestry mosaic in the north-west Indian state…
Most Indian birds declining, finds new report using citizen science data
For millennia, birds have been inherently intertwined in Indian culture, playing prominent roles in mythology, religion, art, and other aspects of human life. A new comprehensive report on the state of India’s…
[Photos] Home in Maharashtra, farm in Karnataka leaves flood victims nowhere
Ganeshwadi is the last village of Shirol taluka in Kolhapur district on the border between Maharashtra and Karnataka. Many farmers from Ganeshwadi and other villages in Shirol straddle between the…
Extreme weather events causing most migration
A grim prophecy made years ago by climate scientists and experts is coming true now. World over, the effect of disasters is displacing more people as compared to other reasons…
Small but precious: small forest patches act as islands and corridors of biodiversity
Indian forest officer Rai Singh Jhala skirts the edge of the Monsoon Palace at Sajjangarh, perched high in the Aravalli hills just outside Udaipur city, in the west Indian state…
India urgently needs to streamline multi-billion rupees worth NTFP market
Every year millions of Indians, who belong to scheduled tribes, collect Rs. two trillion (Rs. 200,000 crore) worth of non-timber forest products (NTFP) from the country's forests. However, in the…
“There is no fish in the ocean”: Declining catch worries fishers in southern Karnataka
January 18th, 2020. It is a hot Saturday afternoon in Sasihithlu, a small fishing village in southern Karnataka. At 12:30 PM, the sun is directly above us, glaring through a…
Can the Bengal florican make its case at the Convention for Migratory Species CoP?
[This article has been updated after the CMS accepted the proposal about the Bengal Florican. Scroll to the end to read more.] Starting late last week on the 15th of…
