Tag: biodiversity
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The Butterfly Effect.
Over your afternoon feni, notice the silence: Mandovi’s birds are gone, tree cover has shrunk, and desertification claims over half our paradise. Time to restore.
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World Wetland Day 2025
Wetlands are water cachements and transitional ecosystem. These are dynamic and found at the interface of terrestrial and aquatic habitat.
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A Day to Embrace Our Environment
World Environment Day 2024 focuses on combating desertification by promoting urban reforestation and sustainable land management. The impact of nature on mental well-being is highlighted, emphasizing the need for community involvement and policy support. Urban forests play a crucial role in stabilizing soil, managing water, and enhancing biodiversity, offering numerous benefits for both the environment…
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World Biodiesel Day
Long ago in 2016 I had written about biofuel extolling the greatness of it all, but now I wonder… Bio-fuel is no doubt renewable fuel made from biological resources like vegetable oils, animal fats algae etc. given the gluttonous nature of humans I wonder about the impact it could have environment. Biodiesel could be promoted…
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An Homage to the Turtle.
About Turtles on the world turtle day
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On Sparrows and Crows
A cluttered balcony, I am rushing through to dry the laundry and fix breakfast I feel the quiet presence of the crow, it perches on the ledge until I have dried the clothes and then caws, then there is the other one, which perches on the tree across and caws as if to make conversation…
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