Appiko…..

After some time….. 
Again in the early 1990s the British Overseas Development Agency (the ODA, now known as DiFID) was invited by the Karnataka Government to implement a programme for reforestation of the Western Ghats. The ODA initially mixed acacia with teak and about 10 per cent of indigenous species. Pressure from the people forced them [...]

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Appiko…..

How the Appiko Movement worked
 
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” William Ruckelshaus.
 
The Appiko Movement uses various techniques to raise awareness: foot marches in the interior forests, slide shows, folk dances, street plays and so on.The movement has spread to the four hill districts of Karnataka Province, [...]

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Appiko Movement

Appiko Movement
“Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect.”  Chief Seattle. 
Long before Al Gore began sharing the inconvenient truth about the environment, villagers in India understood it and were [...]

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Act Regarding Cutting or Felling a Tree in NCR: Be Aware About Your Right & Duties

Felling and removal of trees anywhere in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

Permission to fell trees is regulated under provisions of Delhi Tree Preservation Act, 1994.

If a private individual/company wants to fell tree/trees anywhere in Delhi owned by them an application, in Form ‘B’ has to be made to the Tree Officer, Dy. Conservator of [...]

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Delhi is looking for your Participation:Are you Ready?

The Forest Department distributes seedlings free of cost to public for the purpose of plantation on any land. The seedlings are available from the following Nurseries:

S.NO.
NAME
PH.NO.

1.
Kamla Nehru Ridge
23923561

2.
Anand Vihar (I.S.B.T.)
22166232

3.
Bhairon Marg, Ring Road
–

4.
Old Yamuna Bridge
–

5.
Hauzrani City Forest, M.B. Road
26561439

6.
Alipur City Forest, Old Seed Farm
27204688

7.
Brar Square Nursery (Nrar Rly. Crossing)
25696875

8.
Phoonth Kalan
25483026

9.
Badli Nursery, Near Rly. Station
–

10.
Najafgarh [...]

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Battle for Resource Use

Natural resources are very important for human kind. The development of a country depends on the fact that how much resources it had & how better technology it posses. Every nation & each individual, everybody wants to make full use of the resources which are available to them. Where as the societies & nations are [...]

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Some Sayings on Environment

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

We do not inherit the [...]

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On the brink and counting

24/08/2007 to 24/08/2007
Conference Room 1, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India
Organised by: Toxics Link in collaboration with India International Centre
The declining tiger population in India, which is home to half of the world’s surviving tiger population in the wild, has become a routine headline. The latest figure of 1,300 to 1,500 released by [...]

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Goal 2010:Making Delhi the Greenest city in World

A number of City Forests had been proposed at different sites in Delhi, viz.Mungeshpur, Rewla Khanpur, Sultanpur Dabas. are yet another addition to the existing Green lungs in the Metropolis of Delhi. These City Forests are developed under the aegis of the Department of Forests and Wild life, GNCTD. The proposed City Forest will have [...]

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Delhi on Wheels

Hey have a look on Delhi from a wanderer eyes………

The one & the only one India Gate…………

Near India Gate….
Jiwan Bharti Bhawan, CP, New Delhi…

Night view of CP…..(Canaught Place)….Heart of Delhi..
A pond in mid of agricultural land…in outer Delhi.

A farm house, near Rewla Khanpur, Najafgarh………Farm Houses are prominent features in outer Delhi…

The metro line goes [...]

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