Devi Barman News Today

Tara Lynn Masih interviews wildlife biologist Purnima Devi Barman, whose conservation efforts in India are helping to save the Earth's rarest stork.

In today’s newsletter: What next for a war-torn region which already has millions of displaced people under threat – and an aid system teetering on the brink

Here’s a closer look at how UNEP’s 2022 Champions of the Earth are tackling pressing environmental crises.

Assam's leading conservationist Purnima Devi Barman has been awarded the United Nation's highest environmental honour, 'Champions of the Earth', for 2022. The award is given in various categories and Barman got it in the Entrepreneurial Vision category, for leading the "Hargila Army". The women in the group create and sell textiles with motifs of the…

Barman has won the award in the ‘Entrepreneurial Vision’ category for her work with local communities to conserve the greater adjutant stork, an endangered wetland bird, in Assam.

The Indianapolis Zoological Society announced the 2023 nominees for the prestigious Indianapolis Prize that honors wildlife conservationists.

Floods. Landslides. Environmental degradation. Pollution. It all adds up to a story of disappearing land, displaced lives and destroyed livelihoods along the Brahmaputra

Of the world’s 19 species of storks, the greater adjutant is the most endangered in the world. In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated the global population at just 800-1200 individuals. (Image by Carla Rhodes) India Currents, in collaboration with bioGraphic and the California Academy of Sciences, is publishing a 2 part series on the striking endangered stork known as hargilas, or ‘bone-swallowers’, in one of their last homes – Assam. Read part 1 to the...

Earth Day 2021: Ratan Tata recognises sustainable innovations by young innovators Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata took to Instagram to share his wishes for Earth Day 2021 and recognise the efforts of young innovators. 0 claps Share on Earth Day 2021 is being celebrated worldwide with a number of initiatives of planting trees, sustainable initiatives and other earth endearing causes. Chairman Emeritus of the Tata Group Conglomerate, Ratan Tata took to Instagram to share his wish...