Ecological protection of Eastern Ghats
VISAKHAPATNAM: A two-day state-level seminar on ‘Environmental Protection and Conservation’ with a special focus on the Easter Ghats came to and end on Sunday. Paderu MLA K Bhagyalakshmi was the chief
Eastern Ghats
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Indiscriminate use of pesticides posing a threat to vultures
Study in the wild to create awareness of conservation The last significant vulture population in the Western and Eastern Ghats are threatened by the indiscriminate use of pesticides, say researchers watching vulture habitats. A team of researchers from CareEarth Arulagam has taken up a detailed study in the wild and creating awareness of conservation of these forest scavengers. The organisation has its field station located within the vulture habitat at Bhavanisagar in Erode district.
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Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction of an endemic and endangered plant species (Pterocarpus santalinus L.f.)
Pterocarpus santalinus L.f. (Red Sanders) is an endemic and endangered species largely confined to the southern portion of the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh, India. To understand its ecological and geographic
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Death Of Red Earth Foretold
The hills and valleys are as scenic, their tribal inhabitants as abject, the industrial interests threatening them as powerful and rapacious. But, despite considerable mobilisation and the larger numbers
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Shut resorts in tusker corridor: Experts
NEW DELHI: The battle over removing hotels and resorts from the only corridor linking elephants in the Eastern and Western Ghats has got shriller. Experts on board the prime minister-led National Board
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Remote sensing and GIS for soil erosion prone areas assessment: A case study from Kalrayan hills, Part of Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India
In this present study, the soil erosion assessment and conservation measures in hill ecosystem is carried out in the Kalrayan hills, Part of Eastern ghats, Tamil Nadu using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques.
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Climate change and Indian forests
<p> An assessment of the impact of projected climate change on forest ecosystems in India based on climate projections of the Regional Climate Model of the Hadley Centre (HadRM3) and the global
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Polavaram Conundrum
Fear of submergence haunts Kurturu, a village nestled in the Papi hills of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh. In 2005, a band of officials, an unusual sight in this remote village in West Godavari district, visited the place and marked a rock.
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Decrease in number of forest fires in the State
Better patrolling, prevention measures, growing awareness and rain cited as reasons CHENNAI: There has been a considerable decrease in the number of forest fires in the State this season. A.S.
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Elephants, people & the battle for peaceful coexistence
Over the last several millennia, people have made steady inroads into the elephants’ natural habitat through agriculture and settlements along river valleys. With their habitats now fragmented, degraded
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Carve an elephant landscape from Eastern Ghats: report
Gangadhar S Patil & C Shivkumar BRAHMAGIRI-NILGIRI-GHATS SHOULD BE REVIVED A report of the Elephant Task Force on Tuesday states that the Brahmagiri-Nilgiri-Eastern Ghats, stretching over 12,000 sq km across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala with a splinter group in Andhra Pradesh, should be rededi cated to the nation immediately THE Brahmagiri-Nilgiri-Eastern Ghats, and nine other similar habi