Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) Subject: Environment Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) was formed in 1998 in response to the many crises confronting India’s wildlife and wild habitats. It is an Indian nature conservation organisation WTI is a registered charity in India (under Section 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961).
Cheetah Conservation Fund Subject :Environment The Cheetah Conservation Fund is an international non-profit organization headquartered in Namibia, Africa. CCF has operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, with partner organizations in several other nations. It is concerned with the study and sustenance of the country’s cheetah population, the largest and healthiest […]
Extension of deadline for pollution control technologies in TPPs Subject : Environment On September 5, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) extended the deadline for installing pollution control technologies in the country’s thermal power plants (TPPs). Emission Norms: The Environment Ministry had revised emission norms for particulate matter (PM), sulphur […]
How climate change is altering the Indian monsoon Subject : Environment Context– Research shows that global warming increases the fluctuations in the monsoon, resulting in both long dry periods and short spells of heavy rains. Introduction– Monsoon each year is unique, but there is a large regional and temporal variability in rainfall this […]
Ecological Niche Modelling Subject : Environment Context: Ecological niche modelling can be used to examine economic feasibilities within the context of changing ecological scenarios. Concept : Ecological niche models (ENMs) aim to recreate the relationships between species and the environments where they occur and allow us to identify unexplored areas in geography where […]
World Ozone Day Subject : Environment Concept: World Ozone Day is celebrated on 16th September each year to commemorate the signing of the Montreal Protocol that came into force on this day in 1987. World Ozone Day is celebrated every year to spread awareness among people about the depletion of Ozone Layer and […]
Cheetah translocation Subject : Environment Aim of translocation: To restore India’s “historic evolutionary balance” and develop a cheetah “metapopulation” that will help the global conservation It will revive grassland-forests and its biome and habitat The translocation project has also helped conservation efforts in Africa, in particular SouthAfrica (Today, 4,500 of the world’s 7,000 […]
Big Cats of India Subject : Environment Concept: The cheetah, which is being re-introduced to India from Africa, is not to be confused with the leopard, which too has spots that look somewhat similar. Here’s a list of members of the ‘cat’ genus Panthera, Puma, and Acinonyx. Species Key Features IUCN Status Tiger […]