World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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Elephant traffic
Orissa plans to manage them WITH wildlife habitat getting fragmented, elephants are more frequently straying into urban areas and causing mayhem. On January 1, a herd of elephants entered the Berhampur University campus and went on a rampage near campus staff quarters. The son of a staff member was injured. A few days before that a tusker had strayed into Jagannath Vihar, a residential
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Climate Change Nudges American Birds Northward
WASHINGTON - Climate change is pushing American birds northward, with some finches and chickadees moving hundreds of miles (km) into Canada, an Audubon Society study reported on Tuesday. Drawing on citizen observations over a 40-year period, the society's scientists found that 58 percent of 305 widespread bird species found in the contiguous United States shifted significantly to the north.
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Fading Gold Fibre
Two months ago, a massive strike by 18 trade unions threatened to completely hogtie work in the Rs 6,500-crore jute industry. On December 1, the unions went on an indefinite strike, demanding higher wages and settlement of pending financial negotiations.
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Isles Of Blight
Rising sea levels are forcing people in low-lying areas to flee their homes This new category of refugees is being called climate migrants They are yet to gain any international legal recognition However, resettlement of residents of islands such as the Maldives to safer locations is being discussed
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Bengal brakes on tusker migration
KUMUD JENAMANI Jamshedpur, Jan. 18: A migratory herd of tuskers from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary have been pushed back halfway from the bordering Purulia district of Bengal. Forest officials engaged a hulla party to chase away the herd after a tusker allegedly trampled a villager and damaged vast swathes of farmland in Jalda and Bagmundi blocks of the district.
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Government and public land management in Nepal
Most of the rural population in Nepal is engaged in subsistence farming. There is a high rate of migration of poor landless people from the mountains to the plains and the rural to the
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Mammalian diversity and management plan for Jasrota wildlife sanctuary, Kathua (J&K)
Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary, with an area of 10.04 km2, is situated on the right bank of the Ujh river in district Kathua, J&K State. The mammals of Jasrota Wildlife Sanctuary represent 4.3% of the total mammals (372 species) recorded by Hossetti
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Traditional livelihood based on sheep grazing in the Khangchendzonga national park, Sikkim
The Khangchendzonga National Park, located in Sikkim is a part of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot. Traditional sheep herding practices in the park based on village consultations and field surveys
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International migration, remittances and rural development
This paper analyses the root causes of rural outmigration, focusing on its economic and social implications. It takes as its starting point the fact that mobility is inherent in human existence. Livelihoods and sociocultural changes are intimately connected with population movements.