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Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park – The new Green in the Desert

May 8, 2012

Eco-Travel

Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park situated at the foothills of the Mehrangarh Fort in the city of Jodhpur is a classic example of how good intentions and hard work always reap rewards. A team of ecologist have restored the natural growing plants of the region and given this desert land a green cover like never before. Visitors keen to see the magnanimous Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur now have a new destination to cover that’s an ancient treasure too – promising a future to the long lost and forgotten plant species of the desert.

Western Ghats Medicinal Plants face Extinction Threats

May 5, 2012

Endangered Plants

A new government approved study at the Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR), has found out that around 58 species of medicinal plants found in the Western Ghats are threatened and can become extinct if strict laws and conservation efforts are not made to save them.

How Mumbai Mangroves Save the City everyday

January 12, 2012

Endangered Plants

The Bombay High Court made a monumental decision in 2005 that led to the strict protection of the mangrove forests lining the city coasts. The decision came after the tragic Tsunami that struck the eastern Indian coasts and when it was found that the areas which had mangrove forests were saved from the disastrous high waves. These areas also recovered faster after the aftermath. Worldwide mangroves are fast depleting but because of the conservation order, Mumbai and its neighboring areas now boast of more than 5,800 hectares of mangrove land which is protected and will protect the city in future.

Overharvesting Killing Life Saving Plants

November 30, 2011

Endangered Plants

North east India is a treasure trove of plant species. The region has been ranked as the sixth of the 25 mega diversity hotspot regions of the world. But sadly indiscriminate use of medicinal plants from the region is destroying the biodiversity and leaving little hope for the plants existence in future.

Tree that Helps Treat Cancer Pushed Towards Extinction

November 21, 2011

Endangered Plants

A species of Himalayan Yew Tree that is used to produce a drug called Taxol a chemotherapy drug, is being pushed towards extinction due to overharvesting. Medicinal use and use for fuel is fast depleting the given resource of the tree in India, Afghanistan and Nepal warned scientists.

Oxford Researchers to Map Religious Forests across the World Including India

July 30, 2011

Endangered Plants

A complete mapping of Religious forests in the world, India included, is being undertaken by Oxford researchers with an objective …Read the Rest

India’s Claim of Increased Forest Cover may be False feel Researchers

July 14, 2011

Endangered Plants

Researchers have repudiated Government claims that India’s forest cover has increased by up to 5% in a span of 10 years. The research conducted by two Indian and an Australian scientist reports that in reality there is decline in natural forest cover by 1.5% to 2.7% each year.

India to Have its Own Red List of Endangered Species

May 21, 2011

Did you Know

As a move to take protection of animals and plants to the next level the Indian environment ministry has decided to bring out its own red list of endangered species like the one published by IUCN worldwide. The move will hopefully give a more systematic and planned approach to the protection of species in the verge of extinction in India.

Researchers Discover a New Plant Species in Kerala

May 17, 2011

Endangered Plants

Researchers from the School of Environmental Science of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala have discovered a new plant species belonging to the ‘Commelinaceae’ flora family of the ‘Murdannia’ genus. As an ode to their teacher, the researchers have named the new plant with golden flower ‘Murdannia Satheeshiana’.

Red Alert for Red Sanders, the Rare Red Coloured Timber

May 11, 2011

Endangered Plants

A 5 lakh hectares area in Andhra Pradesh, is the only place in the world where one can find the fragrant red-coloured timber known as red sanders. While the tree also called red sandalwood has long been named endangered, illegal felling is making the forest disappear every day.