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Nature Conservation Index (NCI) launched for biodiversity awareness
Strategic planning, global collaboration needed to tackle intensifying biodiversity crisis Environment October 16, 2024 <!––> Despite constant conservation efforts, Africa, South and Central America and Southeast Asia are engulfed by intensifying biodiversity crisis (Photo: BioDB.com ) BioDB.com, a non-profit focused on biodiversity data, has partnered with the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change…
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Santos to pay K50m for damages to environment
SANTOS, the operator of the Kutubu oil fields in the Southern Highlands, has been given 90 days to pay K50 million in environmental damages compensation to the Kutubu landowners by the Conservation Environment Protection Authority (CEPA). This is the first determination for environmental damage since the law came into effect and its a warning to…
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Osceola County hopes voters embrace land conservation tax
After 20 years of paying a special property tax for land conservation, Osceola County voters will decide in November whether they want to keep doing it. The tax-funded program has conserved 3,300 acres, county officials say, including important lands such as Shingle Creek Regional Park; Brownie Wise Park, where the county plans to build the…
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Why is biodiversity important?
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth — and it is under serious threat. More than 1 million species are at risk of extinction, by some estimates. Most people know that biodiversity is important, but why is it important, exactly? What does biodiversity have to do with the health and well-being of our own species? A…
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Mongabay India wins Greenaccord award for environment journalism
Mongabay India has been honored with the 2024 Greenaccord International Media Award, presented annually by the Italy-based nonprofit Greenaccord. The award publicly recognizes news organizations that are committed to “raising public awareness of the most urgent ecological problems of our time and promoting a more sustainable future.” This year’s recipients include two news outlets from Asia: Mongabay…
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Chief advocates introduction of traditional forest conservation methods to save the environment
The chief of Banda Boase in the Bono region, Nana Ligbi Wullitei II, is pushing for the adoption of traditional methods of environmental conservation to save Ghana’s forest reserves and rivers. He observed that the various traditional authorities previously prohibited members of their communities from farming, entering or undertaking any activity in and around the…
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Assam Engineers’ Association Echoes RSS Chief’s Appeal For Environmental Conservation
He also emphasized on the devastating effects of deforestation, pollution and the reckless use of natural resources. Instead, the RSS supremo called for an urgent need to shift towards more sustainable practices ingrained in Indian traditions. AAEA President Er Kailash Sarma, along with Working President Er NJ Thakuria and Secretary Er Inamul Hye, fully backed…
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Assam Engineers’ Association hails RSS Chief’s call for environmental conservation
The All Assam Engineers’ Association (AAEA), a forum representing graduate engineers in northeast India, has praised Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Dr. Mohan Bhagwat for his strong appeal to safeguard nature and protect the environment. In his annual Vijayadashami address on October 12, 2024, Bhagwat urged citizens to conserve water, reduce single-use plastics, and plant…
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Mongabay India honoured with Greenaccord International Media Award
Mongabay India was presented the Greenaccord International Media Award on October 12, 2024, at the XVI Greenaccord International Forum for Information on Safeguard of Nature in Frascati, Italy. The award recognises “the news organisation that has demonstrated the greatest originality and consistency in covering environmental topics throughout the year”. It is dedicated to a different…
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Conservation Groups Get Temporary Block on Pipeline Construction
Environmental groups on Friday won their bid to put on hold federal and state authorizations for a natural gas project in Tennessee after the Sixth Circuit said irreparable harm could occur otherwise. The Cumberland Project includes a 32-mile gas pipeline being constructed by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., expected to…
