WWF and Nokia join hands to save the tiger

Conservation Need of the hour

Mobile communications company Nokia India, has announced its partnership with conservation organisation WWF-India, that it will be involved in WWF-India's Tiger conservation programme.

This announcement was jointly made by Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO, WWF-India, and D. Shivakumar, vice president and Managing Director, Nokia India, at a recent event in Mumbai.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Pakistan, a non-governmental organisation, has highlighted serious flaws in the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report concerning the extension of a multinational bottled-water company's purification plant at Sheikhupura.

The company has requested the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to let it extend its existing purification plant. It has submitted an EIA report to the EPA for approval in order to begin construction.

Watch major Titan and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has signed a pact to come out with watches on five endangered species of India. "The dials of these watches will be shaped like that of tiger and four other species,' Titan industries vice-president (global business head) told a press meet here. The revenue earned from sale of these watches, priced between Rs 2,000 and Rs 4,500, would be given to WWF for its operations, he said.

India

PAANI (Preventing Attrition to Assets in Nature Initiative), a joint collaborative venture of the state government with other stakeholders such as the farmers, industry, academia and civic authorities, would be launched to improve the available quality of water resources in the state as well as environment and ecology. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has invited the CII and WWF for launching initiatives for saving rivers of Punjab. Chief Minister said the issue of riverine pollution had assumed alarming proportions and sources of water pollution need to be identified.

Sunny Sebastian New arrival: In a bid to revive the tiger population at the Sariska reserve, Rajasthan, a three-year-old male cub was airlifted on Saturday from the State's Ranthambore national park. The move reintroduces the big cat in the reserve, which lost all its tigers to poaching in 2004-05. SARISKA (RAJASTHAN): The tiger has landed and it is a male!

About 28,000 people of Keti Bunder may suffer a major displacement in the next 10 years as the sea is fast eroding their land. With the construction of dams and barrages upstream and stoppage of water downstream, the pace of sea intrusion has increased over the decades. The area has become highly vulnerable to cyclones and tsunamis as mangroves that serve as natural barriers to these calamities are being uprooted at an alarming rate. These facts were highlighted during a tour of journalists to the deltoid region. The visit was organised by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Karachi.