Nature Conservation Foundation

Type: Organization
Name: Nature Conservation Foundation
First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Towards a green glossary

The invite was e-sent; the banner at the ICSA Centre had fresh mango leaves pinned together to announce "Pasumai Sandippu" (Green Meeting); the hall had no power-guzzling air-conditioners. It figured. The event $ a discussion on books $ was put together ... [Published The Hindu - May 10 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Young Indian Wildlife Biologist Wins Green Oscar

Set up community-based conservation program with forest tribal group<&gt;2013 Whitley Award Winner Aparajita Datta receiving her award from the Princess Royal, Patron of the Whitley Fund for Nature, at The Royal Geographical Society in London, on May ... [Published Epoch Times - May 04 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Siruthuli’s ‘nurture nature’ camp inaugurated

Summer seems to become a lot harsher with each passing year.The reasons are not complex scientific and climatic factors, but are right in front of everyone's eyes in daily day occurrences such as cutting trees, burning the garbage and ever-increasing ... [Published The Hindu - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

"Mythos Stein" Mythical Stone

"Mythos Stein" – Mythical StoneA few months ago, the Geseke cement plant (North Rhine-Westphalia) inaugurated the “Mythos Stein” park, which extends along a 750-meter itinerary in a disused part of the plant’s quarry. Designed in close collaboration with ... [Published BUZZI Unichem - Apr 16 2013]

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Author Theodore Baskaran put it in perspective: "Books on science are hard to come by, and harder to come by are books on conservation and natural history. A group of youngsters got writers on environment together to discuss how to create interest in reading and writing on Nature, especially in Tamil, and how to equip these writers. One idea is to release a glossary of terms relating to environment/conservation." The glossary will have standard translations for terms such as "global warming" and "sustainable development...
This is palpably new River flows ebb and rise over months. "But now, what was an annual variation will now be a daily variation" says MD Madhusudan, a biologist with Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation...
"Focussing on hornbills as a conservation flagship species, she is seeking to improve the status of the bird's populations outside protected areas by establishing models of community-based conservation" the Whitley Fund said
"From this video clip, we came to know that abandoned dogs are also a potential threat to the wild cat. However, in this case, the snow leopard managed to escape with minor injuries on its hind legs" Gulati said

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Towards a green glossary [Published The Hindu - May 10 2013]
Contours of a Hydel Scam [Published Economic Times - May 07 2013]
Young Indian Wildlife Biologist Wins Green Oscar [Published Epoch Times - May 04 2013]
Indian hornbill conservator Aparajita Datta win... [Published DNA India - May 03 2013]
Hornbill conservator Aparajita Datta gets Whitl... [Published ProKerala.com - May 03 2013]
Siruthuli’s ‘nurture nature’ camp inaugurated [Published The Hindu - Apr 30 2013]
"Mythos Stein" Mythical Stone [Published BUZZI Unichem - Apr 16 2013]
Cameras keep eye on snow leopards in Spiti Valley [Published Topnews.in - Dec 29 2010]
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