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19-11-2009
Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). This will not only help tackle the rapid deforestation but will also generate income for the poor.
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Image: Putting Nepal's forests in the hands of community people/ Photo credit: Community Forestry Workshop
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12-11-2009
Two teenagers in southern India learnt about sustainable agriculture from a group working with the rural poor. They then convinced a plant biotechnology company to collaborate with them on their project to cultivate jatropha to help the farmers augment their income and protect the environment.
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09-11-2009
Activists in Nepal are demanding that environmental rights be enshrined in the new constitution to protect vulnerable sections. In view of climate change, the issue of protection and right utilisation of resources becomes especially crucial for this Himalayan nation.
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Image: These women belong to the marginalised Chepang Community/ Photo credit: IPS
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04-11-2009
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that globally 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed ones are facing extinction. Its biodiversity conservation group has said that scientific evidence of extinction crisis is only mounting.
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Image: Kihansi Spray Toad is 'extinct in the wild'/ Photo credit: Tim Herman
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30-10-2009
A plantation drive being carried out in the districts of an eastern Indian state is helping villagers get employment through nurturing tree saplings. Engaging rural households with social forestry has brought them relief during failed monsoons.
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Image: The scheme has caught on because drought has rendered farmers jobless/ Photo credit: Down to Earth
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16-10-2009
Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology will spearhead the country’s first major initiative to predict air quality levels during the Commonwealth Games 2010 to be held in New Delhi from October 3 to 14.
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09-10-2009
Dolphin is now India’s national aquatic animal. The Union Environment Minister said that the new status would help save the rare freshwater species from disappearing from the country’s aqua map.
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Image: Dolphins/ Photo credit: WWF
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08-10-2009
Malawian teenager William Kamkwamba dropped out of school due to poverty and went on to build a generator out of a bicycle and tractor fan. Today he is being lauded as genius by environmentalists.
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Image: When William Kamkwamba stopped going to school because his family could no longer afford the fees, he went to his local library to find ways of making a wind generator/ Photo credit: The Guardian
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06-10-2009
A small village in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya has become the envy of its neighbours and visitors are thronging it to find the reasons. Experts say Mawlynnong's effective local governance system and the matrilineal society have played a huge role in its development.
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Image: The village has set a standard of cleanliness much admired throughout India/ Photo credit: BBC
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06-10-2009
An architect in India, who never visited the site but only gave instructions online over two years, has helped in building an eco-friendly house. On World Habitat Day, one can learn lessons from this experiment about how to build houses that are in perfect harmony with nature.
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Image: An eco-friendly house near Chandigarh/ Photo credit: WFS
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