What is the Difference Between Environmental Conservation and  Environmental Preservation ?

 Can nature be preserved and respected without anthropogenic disturbances, an interpretation  promoted by the passionate environmentalist John Muir; or should it be used as “the better  benefit for the biggest number of people, for a long time” as the radical environmentalist  Gifford Pinchot places it in the nineteenth century? Conservation and preservation are linked  closely […]

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Saving the Endangered Forest Owlet

One hundred and thirteen years after the last genuine record, the Forest Owlet, Athene blewitti, has been rediscovered in low foothills dry-deciduous forest north of Shahada in Maharashtra, India. This augurs well for the conservation of the species. The town of Shahada is in the Tapi (Tapti) River Valley at about 150 m elevation. This

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Where is my Green Vine Snake?

That was a rainy morning on a day in August 2008, my father was busy plucking a flower from our garden in front of my home which is in the remote village of Honnavara taluk of Uttara Kannada, in the mysterious Western Ghats. Suddenly he spotted green vine snake not one, not two but it

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Why is science communication so important for wildlife conservation?

The information/data conservationists and wildlife scientists produce does have the potential to change the face of conservation and so does effective communication. Having incredible data but no proper way of communication could damage the conservation action plans and indeed perishing wildlife and natural habitats. Communicating conservation research followed by action plans is important to achieve

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