Category: Environment and Ecology - Page 8

Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits

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This section relates to initiatives that promote the principles of ecological integrity and limits. These are initiatives which envision models of decentralized conservation of land, water and biodiversity, based on a respect for both local and modern knowledge, and considering environment as an integral part of life and work. It also highlight attempts at linking livelihoods to ecological regeneration and restoration at local and landscape level. It will feature innovative attempts to deal with problems of pollution and waste. Overall, this section will try to work towards an understanding of the ecosystem which includes sociological, historical and geographical considerations while deciding on the path that local urban/ rural communities and the larger society take towards well-being.

Indigenous Farmers to Revive Millet cultivation in Kanthalloor

Twenty-five farmers from indigenous communities in Kanthalloor in Kerala are sowing millets with renewed vigour.

Emancipation through Education: Movement for Scavenger Community

Eradication of caste violence and discriminatory attitude towards the scavenger community by facilitating leadership education.

पर्यावरण के साथ आजीविका की रक्षा (In Hindi)

महाराष्ट्र के भीमाशंकर वन्य जीव अभयारण्य में आदिवासी जंगल व ज़मीन का अधिकार लेने की प्रक्रिया में जुटे हुए हैं।

Why this Maharashtra village is fighting for the long forgotten Gramdan Act?

Dec 2022, Mendha (Lekha), a village deep inside the forest area of Gadchiroli, moved the Nagpur bench of the Bombay HC for implementing Gramdan, a historic act born out of a movement by Vinoba Bhave

Could tribal honey hunters help save the bees and improve our food security?

The community treats the bees as sacred beings and they hold prayers before they leave for harvesting the honey.

‘Chhu-med’- No Water and the ‘imaginary of hope’: Living in-between Climate Change and Adaptation, Development and Sustainability, Apathy and Hope.

How communities in Ladakh survive an intense water crisis despite institutional apathy and critical climate change, by coming together through a culture’s ‘Imaginary of Hope’.