State of Forests Report is published by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) on a biennial basis since 1987. Forest cover of the country is mapped through indigenous...
ISRO had prepared a national wetlands atlas on the basis of satellite image. It mapped 2,31,195 wetlands in India during 2017-18. They comprise around 4.86% of the total...
Telangana has become the first State in the country to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level. In this regard, state government has introduced bilingual textbook titled...
Scientists at the Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes (CIRB) in Hisar, Haryana have successfully produced a cloned buffalo offspring named ‘Cirb Gaurav’. CIRB scientists have achieved this...
Vultures, who feed on dead animals, were once the most abundant birds across the world, including Indian subcontinent. Vultures have ecological, social and cultural significance in India. They...
The Wildlife Protection Act 1972 is first umbrella act to protect plants as well as animals. It was last amended in 2006 to give statutory status to Project...
Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (genetic variability), species (species diversity), and...
To sustain biodiversity’s invaluable contributions supporting food webs, ecological balance, scientific discoveries and more, targeted conservation efforts are essential. Two major biodiversity conservation approaches include in situ and...
Western Ghats is one of the richest centres of endemism in the world. Due to varied topography and microclimatic regimes, some areas within the region are active zones...
Eastern Himalaya forms a distinct phytogeographic region comprising Nepal, Bhutan, states of East and North-East India, and a contiguous sector of Yunnan province in South-Western China. The Eastern...
