The Balipara Foundation, in collaboration with Conservation International, has unveiled a project titled 'The Great People's Forest of the Eastern Himalayas'. This initiative aims to raise $1 billion to plant one billion trees and restore a vast one million hectares of land across the Eastern Himalayas spanning Northeast India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant and environment ministry …
by TV Padma Land-use changes in the western Himalayan forests, a global biodiversity hotspot with huge numbers of endemic species, have resulted in a massive decline in forest birds in the region, new research shows. The study shows “moderate to drastic species loss in all modified land-use types in comparison to natural oak forest.” The scientists report changes in the …
For someone who grew up in Kapurthala, amid the dusty plains of Punjab, biodiversity was in the realm of the unknown. So when he boarded the toy train from Siliguri to Darjeeling in May 1962, little did Prof. Kamaljit Bawa, then a young research scholar, realise that the slow ride through the forests of Eastern Himalayas, a biodiversity hotspot, would …
