This publication includes the proceedings of the 3 day meet on Save Western Ghats at the Keystone Campus, Keystone Foundation, Kotagiri from 18-20 February 2010. The purpose being to highlight the issues and challenges being faced by Western Ghats over decades in the light of its importance as an ecologically sensitive and biodiversity hotspot area.
Udhagamandalam: Forest officials should take more care in protecting forests, said the CPI(M), the Nilgiris chapter.
In a statement issued here the district secretary of the party R. Badri alleged that illegal activities were taking place in forest areas with the connivance of forest officials.
Expect a 15 per cent jump in tiger populationFOREST officials hope for a substantial increase in the tiger population in Tamil Nadu during the synchronised wildlife census exercise that is scheduled to begin towards the end of this month.
Udhagamandalam: Under the aegis of the Public Awareness Association of Udhagamandalam, World Wetlands Day was observed here on Tuesday.
At a brief function organised inside the verdant arboretum (tree garden) near the Ooty Lake, a number of tiny-tots studying in the CSI Matriculation School took a pledge to protect the wetlands.
Coimbatore: Development at the cost of nature will lead to the destruction of Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve leaving a lasting impact on the future of Coimbatore, said C.R. Jayaprakash of Nilgiris Wildlife Environment Association on Tuesday.
The authors studied the activity patterns and feeding ecology of Asian Elephants Elephas maximus in deciduous and dry thorn forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, southern India. Over 20,000 instantaneous scan samplings on elephants revealed that 60% of the daylight hours were devoted to feeding.
On November 6, 2009 the Madras High Court asked the Tamil Nadu forest department to submit a detailed map demarcating elephant corridors in the Niligiri mountains for conservation. The directions were given while ordering a ban on new constructions in the forest corridors used by about 1,000 elephants.
Udhagamandalam: The possibility of forming a separate authority for the development of the Nilgiris will be explored, said Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin here on Tuesday.
