Managing Marine and Coastal Protected Areas: A Toolkit for South Asia (South Asia Toolkit) has been prepared to help MCPA managers in their daily tasks. Containing 81 theme sheets arranged in two parts: The Management Process and Conservation and Sustainable Use, the Toolkit provides up-to-date information and practical guidance on a wide range of issues related to management of MCPAs.
This paper is a compilation of example principles, frameworks and tools already in use in the conservation community which may be applied to bioenergy production to identify and reduce environmental as well as socio-economic risks and promote opportunties.
The National Biodiversity Action Plan approved in November 2008 to augment natural resource base and its sustainable utilisation. The Plan draws from the principles of National Environment Policy,incorporates suggestions made by a consultative committee and proposes to design actions based on the assessment of current and future needs of conservation and sustainable utilization.
Global warming confronts policymakers with two significant and serious challenges to wildlife and ecosystem conservation and the web of life on which we all depend. The first, reducing levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions, has at last begun to receive significant and much-needed attention from the public and in the halls of Congress.
Tamil Nadu to undo plantations to save Olive Ridley turtles THE Tamil Nadu revenue department has sanctioned money to uproot casuarinas planted with World Bank fund along the coast because they were affecting the nesting of the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles. In January, Chennai-based Students
A dispute about non-native algae has broken out in India between beverage giant PepsiCo and the Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), which is based in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. Institute researchers originally imported the alga Kappaphycus alvarezii for research; in 2001 PepsiCo began cultivating it for the food thickener carrageenan in the Gulf of Mannar marine bioreserve, along India's southeastern coast.
