Mendha a tribal village in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra is showing the way to conserve forests and manage natural resources. Mendha is mainly inhabited by 480 Gond adivasis.
Mendha-Lekha and Marda in Gadchiroli district, which became the first villages under the Forest Rights Act to get community ownership of the forests around them in August, were on Tuesday handed over the Record of Rights by Governor S C Jamir at a function at Gadchiroli.
The two tribal villages had successfully claimed community rights over the
Pune Goldyne Technoserve Ltd signed an agreement with the district administration of Gadchiroli for executing a Turnkey Technology Infrastructure Management Project for implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
Maharashtra is the first to recognize their rights over forests two villages in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra have become the first in the country to win community rights over forests under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. On August 15, Ramesh Bang, the state food and civil supplies minister, said the claims of Mendha
Like many species of flora and fauna, many avifauna too are endangered, especially due to habitat loss. While the International Conference on Hornbills exchange news, welcome ideas and make efforts towards their conservation by various means through greater networking possibilities today, there are birds which birders are still trying to find in numbers that might be viable.
Avian malaria also responsible for decline in vulture numbers diclofenac poisoning may not be the sole cause for the drastic decline of vulture populations in central and south India. A two-year long study says avian malaria had a part to play as well. The population of the Indian white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) suffered a decline of over 95 per cent between 1988 and 1999,
The populations of three species of Gyps vultures have shown a decline of more than 95% between 1988 and 1999 in the Indian subcontinent and are now classified as
Maharashtra coal mining EIA dumps people, wildlife COAL mining is set to replace 3,350 hectares (ha), and perhaps more, of reserve forests in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra. This will affect people who are dependent on such forests for everyday needs like firewood. The Centre has given mining leases to three companies, of which Adani Enterprises has got 1,600 ha for its opencast mining
Maharashtra village places demands under forest rights act Managing forest resources comes easy to people of Mendha Lekha. The people of this forest village in Maharashtra
State forest officials have seized the halfburnt skin, bones and other remains of a chinkara from the farmhouse of state minister for transport and tribal development Dharmarao Baba Atram. The raid on Atram's farmhouse at Khingar in Mahabaleshwar taluka comes nearly three weeks after the poaching of the chinkara, an endangered species of deer, in the forest area of Purandar taluka came to light.
