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The Gujarat forest department has told its field staff to scan every part of the lion territory, including social forestry areas, to determine if any

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, in the lead up to President Biden’s Climate Summit, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced it will be net zero by 2040.  Kate DeAngelis, International Finance Program Manager at Friends of the Earth U.S., issued the following statement in response: DFC’s broad-based restrictions on fossil fuel financing are a first for any U.S. institution, but still insufficient to address the true nature of the climate crisis. DFC should have taken the opportunity of the climate summit to once and for all end support for all fossil fuels immediat...

Ride to the Rann - A Vagabond's tale “You don’t stop riding when you get old, you get old when you stop riding“ -Anonymous Prologue It is interesting and sometimes funny to see people’s reaction when you tell them about an upcoming bike trip. Here’s some from personal experience: “Why don’t you take the car, it’s safer and more relaxing” – I have a celerio; it strikes out on both counts! “Why not public transport?” – Where’s the fun in that? “Are you crazy to do such a long bike trip!! Why do you want to do such things?”

World Animal Protection World Animal Protection welcomes corporates embracing wildlife-friendly tourism in the wake of landmark legal directive on Gir Tourism ANI | Updated: Mar 13, 2021 14:44 IST New Delhi, [India], March 13 (ANI/NewsVoir): International animal welfare organisation, World Animal Protection lauds and appreciates the recent legal directive of a court on the unethical and immoral practice of baiting lions for tourism in Gir National Park in Gujarat, as reported in the press. In the wake of this landmark legal directive that regulates the na...

Prasun Chaudhuri   |     |   Published 14.03.21, 12:47 AM I head out for Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district, 44 kilometres northwest of Calcutta, one early March morning. Hooghly is the potato bowl of Bengal. As the car speeds down the Durgapur Expressway, I notice freshly harvested potatoes in pink sacks dotting bare fields. I don’t have to ask for directions to the village centred around a 14th century mosque; it is all too well known. Furfura Sharif, according to one of several the...