Save the giant creatures “Elephant”

  
 
(Photo Anandabazar Patrika 25th October 2007) 
 
An adult female elephant has been electrocuted by the high tension electric wire in the jungle of the North Bengal. About 26 elephant died out of electrocution this year till October.

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Revival of Indigenous rice varieties in West Bengal

Undivided Bengal had a rich flora and fauna. In case of rice, once upon a time there was about 4,800 different verities of rice were cultivated in Bengal. Since the last forty years and especially after the “Green Revolution” with the increase of mixed verities hybrid rice cultivation all these indigenous verities of rice have [...]

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Environmental Heroes

 

Mikhail Gorbachev
In its October issue Time magazine have given the list of forty heroes, which have been selected by the magazine from the field of Environment on the basis of their work, which gives voice to Mother Earth. It includes Mikhail Gorbachev,  David Attenborough, South Korean politician and construction chief executive Lee Myung Bak, this year’s [...]

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