Western Ghats

A major conservation issue, particularly in the tropics, is habitat loss and fragmentation due to developmental activities and increasing human populations.

Publication Date:

01/06/2003

Author(s): T. R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa

Source: Social Change

Vol:

33

Issue:

2

pp:

129

Tags:

Land Use, Western Ghats, Deforestation, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Wildlife And People, India, Tamil Nadu

Wildlife

Bridging the gap: Sharing responsibility for ecological restoration

A major conservation issue, particularly in the tropics, is habitat loss and fragmentation due to developmental activities and increasing human populations.

Publication Date:

01/06/2003

Author(s): T. R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa

Source: Social Change

Vol:

33

Issue:

2

pp:

129

Tags:

Western Ghats, Wildlife, Tropical Forests, Plantation Crops, Tea, Coffee, Eucalyptus, Anamalai Hills, Elephant, Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) SA, Forest Conservation, Land Use, Protected Area Conservation

Forests

Restoration of southern Indian Shola forests: Realising community-based forest conservation in the Palni Hills of the Western Ghats

The involvement of local communities in protecting and conserving forests has become a priority concern with aid agencies, governmental departments, NGO's and others concerned with biodiversity conservation, to the extent that participatory forest conservation has become a buzzword in conservation circles.

Publication Date:

01/06/2003

Author(s): Robert Stewart, Tanya Balcar

Source: Social Change

Vol:

33

Issue:

2

pp:

115

Tags:

Forests, Western Ghats, Palni Hills, Forest Conservation, Public Participation, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, Afforestation

India

The link with a hole

At a time when river networking is being touted as a panacea for the entire country’s water woes, the tide of opinion in Karnataka is turning against the concept. The dissent is moored to a proposed local scheme to divert Nethravathi river

Publication Date:

29/04/2003

Author(s): Ramya Viswanath

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Western Ghats, Rivers, Groundwater, Water Distribution, Canal Irrigation, Finance, Legislation, Governance, India, Karnataka

India

Charaka and Sushruta reborn

Bangalore University s new BioPark has medicinal gardens that incorporate the near forgotten science of India s ancient medical treatises

Publication Date:

14/06/2002

Author(s): Keya Acharya

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020615

pp:

0

Tags:

Western Ghats, Trees, Sandalwood, Green Spaces, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Biotechnology, India, Bangalore (D)

India

Mapping the reek

The genetic variability of sandalwood trees in India has reduced considerably because of their increased susceptibility to diseases

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Author(s): M Nageswara Rao, K N Ganeshaiah, R Uma Shaanker

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats, Forest Conservation, Sandalwood, Poaching, Genetic Resources, India, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu

Biodiversity

Biodiversity characterisation at landscape level in Western Ghats India using satellite remote sensing and GIS

Biodiversity characterisation at landscape level has been carried out using Indian remote sensing satellite data in Western Ghats of India. This study presents the results of the project undertaken to build national database on biodiversity at landscape level.

Publication Date:

Jan 2002

Source: Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

Tags:

Western Ghats, Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), India

India