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Social media helping to protect biodiversity: Study
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Nature photographers using social media to post their work are helping enhance biodiversity conservation mapping in South Asia and the concept has the potential to spread globally, according to a study
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Village-level community surveillance launched to prevent wildlife crimes i
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
In a pioneering effort, the region's premier biodiversity conservation organisation, Aaranyak, has formed Community Surveillance and Monitoring Teams (CSMT) in some villages in Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur as part of an initiative to elicit proactive community cooperation in monitoring and
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Air pollution makes it difficult for bees to find flowers: Research
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
According to a new study, air pollution prevents bees from finding flowers because it degrades the scent.
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Biodiversity organisation Aaranyak, stakeholders celebrate International P
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak with the objective to highlight the importance of primate species in our ecology, facilitated several collaborative awareness programmes in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on the occasion of International Primates Day on Friday.
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WCCB-Aaranyak sensitises 99 SSB men on combating wildlife crime
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The sensitisation workshop on "Preventing Wildlife Crime and Illegal Wildlife Trade" was conducted jointly by wildlife crime experts and resource persons from the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak on being invited by the SSB.
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Assam: 'Aaranyak' takes up elephant habitat improvement to mitigate human-
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak has initiated an ambitious project for improvement of elephant habitat in Assam's Rowta Reserve Forest to mitigate Human Elephant Conflict (HEC).
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Participation of local communities is important for elephant conservation:
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav has emphasised on mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in India’s economic development to ensure ecological wellbeing and sustainability.
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Aaranyak, Samagra Shiksha Assam hold teachers' workshop on biodiversity co
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak in collaboration with Samagra Shiksha Assam (SSA), Baksa district of Assam conducted a day-long teachers training workshop on Biodiversity conservation and sustainability education in Baska district recently at Nikashi High School.
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Rapid response units formed for mitigating human-elephant conflict in Assa
Updated : 4 months ago IST
To boost efforts for mitigation of Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) and facilitate much-needed coexistence through community participation, Aaranyak, a biodiversity conservation organisation, has formed seven Rapid Response Units (RRUs) at the grassroots level in some of the HEC affected areas
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Kupwara's Eco Parks: New tourist hotspots in J&K
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Nestled in the Kamraj forest division in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a series of eco-tourism parks has emerged as the epitome of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation in the area.
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India has devised unique biodiversity conservation model: Bhupender Yadav
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Union Minister of Environment Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said that the Central government has devised a unique biodiversity conservation model through a holistic approach while addressing Haryali Mahotsav near Dwarka's Rukmini Temple in Gujarat.
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Meghalaya: Solar lights installed in human-elephant conflict-hit villages
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
One of India's foremost research-driven biodiversity conservation organisations, Aaranyak installed 10 solar street lights in seven villages identified as Human-Elephant conflict (HEC) areas in West Garo Hills district.
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