This paper deals with the less known wild edible fruits and seeds of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. Less known 12 wild fruit and seed bearing plants are documented.
Mahouts are a specialized class of people with a proud professional background. However, the profession is losing its appeal owing to the dwindling importance of captive elephants. We have assessed their incomes, number elephants, background and human casualties by captive elephants through extensive surveys in three captive elephant management systems - private, Hindu temple and forest department prevalent in Tamil Nadu.
The cult of worshipping plants as a blessing from God on earth has its roots deep in the history of human civilization. Plants were considered as a solemn symbol that protected and defended man in various ways. Over the centuries, the world's first recorded conservation measures were enacted in India by emperor Ashoka.
Mangroves are unique salt tolerant plant community, found in the coastal regions. As a result of unprecedented human exploitable activities and population pressure, the day of mangroves decreases day to day. Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in Asia.
Forests have been the key element in maintaining sustainability of many global phenomena. Human dependency on forests is both necessary and unavoidable and hence degradation of this natural resource is inevitable. The study aims to understand the change dynamics over past few decades in the Shimla district, using remote sensing and GIS based techniques.
Rapid and alarming deterioration in natural environment has become a matter of great concern for the entire globe. Exploding population, industrialization, man-made pollution, loss of forests, etc are responsible for this disastrous ecological scenario. Carbon dioxide emissions are at historic highs and rising. Bamboo is emerged as a way out to effectively combat these problems.
Phytosociological study of the tree community was carried out in tropical dry deciduous forest of Gandhamardan hill ranges belonging to Eastern Ghats at Harishankar of Bolangir district, Orissa. Twenty five quadrates of 20x20m size were laid in the 100 ha protected forest of Harishankar complex along GPS locations covering its whole geography.
Response of Terminalia chebula Retz. to application with three different biofertilizers like Azospirillum, phospobacteria and vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) and four differerent biofertilizers combinations like Azospirillum and Phospobacteria, Azospirillum with VAM, Phospobacteria with VAM and Azospirillum with Phosbacteria and VAM was studied under nursery condition.
Silk, a highly priced agricultural commodity, accounts for about 0.2% of the total world production of textile fiber. Since sericulture stands next to agriculture for rural employment in India, it becomes a matter of concern to examine the sericulture production trend over the years and reasons for slow growth. The data for the study period 1980-81 to 2005-06 collected from Annual Reports of Central Silk Board were partitioned in two equal halves, the first 13 years (1980-81 to 1992-93) and next 13 years (1993-94 to 2004-06).
