Kerala Floods and the Fragile Ecosystem of Western Ghats
The Kerala tragedy has revived the discussion around the need to protect the fragile ecosystem of the Western Ghats, the 1600-km-long mountain range, regarded as one of the eight ‘hottest’ biodiversity hotspots in the world. Kerala accounts for nearly 18 per cent of the biodiversity-rich Western Ghats.
What was Finally Decided?
The Environment Ministry issued a draft notification, demarcating an area of 56,285 sq km in the Western Ghats as ESA. This was slightly less than the 59,940 sq km recommended by the Kasturirangan committee. In Kerala, specifically, the Kasturirangan committee had proposed an area of 13,108 square km as ....
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Bio–Diversity And Environment
- 1 Kirunji Flowers Bloom
- 2 Nilambur Teak
- 3 GI Tag for Alphonso Mango from Konkan
- 4 Bihar’s Shahi Litchi gets GI Tag
- 5 Cobra Lily
- 6 Sunderbans is Losing its Mangrove Forest
- 7 Musa paramjitiana
- 8 Retrotransposons
- 9 Gleadovia konyakianorum
- 10 Gandheli Rediscovered
- 11 New Plant Species Found in Western Ghats
- 12 Discovery of Nine Plants in Western Ghats
- 13 Red Data Book
- 14 Hornbill Watch Initiative
- 15 Black-necked Cranes
- 16 Two New Gecko Species Discovered
- 17 Rare Sub-species of Hog Deer
- 18 New Night Frog Species
- 19 New Ant Species Discovered in the Western Ghats
- 20 New Species of Large Gecko Discovered from Eastern Ghats
- 21 A New Snake found in Western Ghats
- 22 New Species of the Genus Nasikabatrachus
- 23 Zygaenid
- 24 Nilgiri Marten
- 25 Chiru Goat
- 26 Flamingo
- 27 Sawfish
- 28 Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
- 29 Snow Leopard
- 30 Rise in Population of Asiatic Lions
- 31 Survival Threat to Sher Mahi Fish
- 32 Climate Change Threatens Nilgiri Tahr
- 33 Celebration of World Wetlands Day at Deepor Beel in Assam
- 34 Floating Treatment Wetland
- 35 National Wildlife Action Plan
- 36 SECURE Himalaya
- 37 Nine more Bird, Biodiversity Areas in Kerala
- 38 Three New Sites Recognised as Biodiversity Hotspots in Goa
- 39 Orang Tiger Reserve
- 40 Conservation of Animals: Smaller Species are Neglected Lot
- 41 Illegal Wildlife Trade Restrictions Recognised
- 42 World’s Smallest Land Fern in Western Ghats
- 43 Nilgiri Hills
- 44 First Inter-State Tiger Translocation Project
- 45 Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve (KBR)
- 46 Biodiversity of Manipur’s Loktak Lake under Threat
- 47 Ocean’s Dead Zones
- 48 Gene Banks of Wild Animals
- 49 Woolly Mammoths to be brought from the Dead
- 50 Kulik Bird Sanctuary
- 51 Agarwood Facing Extinction
- 52 Genes of Machhli to be Mapped
- 53 Eight Captive-Reared Vultures to be released with Tracking Devices
- 54 Just Six Sub-species of Tiges Remain
- 55 Odisha Beach is Asia’s first to get ‘Blue Flag’ Tag
- 56 Microbeads
- 57 Carbon Capture Utilization Storage (CCUS)
- 58 Bio-CNG
- 59 Furnace Oil and Pet Coke
- 60 Moss : A Cheap Pollution Monitor
- 61 Methanol as Cooking Fuel
- 62 National Air Quality Index (AQI)
- 63 Bharat Stage Norms
- 64 Chemicals in Firecrackers
- 65 Black Carbon
- 66 Sensor Network to Map and Predict Pollution, Effluents in Godavari
- 67 Soil Crisis in India
- 68 Global E-waste Monitor 2017
- 69 Moss that can Remove Lead from Water
- 70 Ambient Air Quality Standards in India
- 71 Dust Mitigation Plan
- 72 National Aquifer Mapping Programme (NAQUIM)
- 73 Iron Ore Mining Leases in Goa
- 74 Uranium Contamination of Water
- 75 Protecting Bay of Bengal
- 76 Plastic Road Surfacing
- 77 Herbicide Glyphosate
- 78 Shale Oil or Gas Extraction by Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)
- 79 CFC-11 in Atmosphere
- 80 WAYU: New Device to Tackle Pollution
- 81 SATAT Initiative to Promote Compressed Bio-Gas
- 82 Cleaning the Ganga
- 83 Biomass Pellets
- 84 Clean Air is a Human Right: WHO
- 85 Formaldehyde in Fish
- 86 Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project
- 87 National Disaster Risk Index
- 88 Apps for Disaster Info
- 89 Classifications of Disasters
- 90 New Trend in Floods
- 91 Role of Water & Ecological Systems in Drought Resilience
- 92 Drought in Maharashtra
- 93 Development of Solar Cities
- 94 Questions in Parliament on Plastics
- 95 Tiger Extinction Risk
- 96 Joint Research Projects for Clean Water, Energy
- 97 SC Seeks Details of Green Funds
- 98 e-Mobility Programme
- 99 Law to Define a River’s Edge
- 100 Notification on Clean Fuel
- 101 Impact of Sand Mining and Alternatives to Sand
- 102 eDNA
- 103 India Bans 18 Pesticides
- 104 Global Geopark Network Status
- 105 Eastern Ghats Face Loss of Forest Cover, Endemic Plants
- 106 Environmental Flows of Ganga
