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National Biodiversity Authority Secretary said there were many sites in the State that could be declared Biodiversity Heritage Sites.
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Appreciating Telangana’s initiatives in biodiversity conservation, experts from different fields stressed on the need for preparing a comprehensive State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
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Hyderabad: These practice questions focusing on Environment and Biodiversity will aid aspirants to prepare better for the State government recruitment examinations. 1. Consider the following actions: 1) Extensive farming 2) Shifting cultivation 3) Monoculture 4) Contour farming 5) Zero tillage agriculture Which of the above is/are likely to cause land degradation? a) 2 and 3 […]
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Each department should ensure that the concept of biodiversity is included, embedded and aligned with their policies so that it percolates down to the grassroots level where actual implementation takes place
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By Quentin Read The food on our plates has a footprint. Every bite of food we consume represents the environmental impact of all the resources used to produce that food. Land is foremost among those resources. As food is transported from farm to fork, the land used to grow the food is ‘virtually transported’ along […]
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By K Aloke Kumar Director, Telangana State BC Study Circles Knowledge about national parks, flora and fauna and the complete ecosystem is necessary for the upcoming competitive exams These practice questions focusing on environment and ecology will aid aspirants better prepare for the State government recruitment examinations. 1. Which of the following National Parks is […]
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This article is in continuation to the previous articles that deal with various topics categorised as biological sciences. These series of articles will help you understand topics under ‘Biodiversity’. As discussed in the previous article, the threats to biodiversity include four major causes (the evil quartet) for accelerated rates of species extinction in the world: […]
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Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the previous articles that deal with various topics categorised as biological sciences. These series of articles will help you understand each of the topics under ‘Biodiversity’. Broadly utilitarian argument: It explains that biodiversity plays a major role in many ecosystem series the nature provides, for which we cannot […]
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Hyderabad: What is Biodiversity? When we observe our surroundings, we find different kinds of organisms which vary in size, form, feeding habits, behaviour, etc. For example, there are more than 20,000 species of ants, 3,00,000 species of beetles, 28,000 species of fishes and 20,000 species or orchids. This variation of life at various levels of […]
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Quoting from her personal experience of a field trip to an area from Arunachal Pradesh, Zoological Survey of India Director Dhriti Banerjee said, over the last two decades, she has found that over a fifth of the species have been lost.
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Hyderabad: The students of grade III and IV of Delhi Public School, Nacharam learnt the definition of biodiversity by watching a video and taking a virtual pledge on October 25. Biodiversity is the diversity or variety among the different species in the living organisms that are present on planet Earth. The students comprehended the meaning […]
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University campus will soon be home to a butterfly garden which will be coming up near the Zoology department
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Earlier, the officials introduced the species, native to Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, to increase green cover. However, it has eventually affected the soil acidity, thereby preventing other plants from thriving.
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The ongoing extinction, Holocene, is being caused by the activities of “One Weedy Species” – humans
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Sustainable heritage agriculture could be an answer to the problem of global food security.
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The bulging, equator-belted midsection of Earth currently teems with a greater diversity of life than anywhere else - a biodiversity that generally wanes when moving from the tropics to the mid-latitudes
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We need to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow above or outside the natural systems that support us
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Ken Lee, a new breed of snake catchers strive to release the reptiles back into nature
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Minister was speaking at the first graduation ceremony of 49 first batch of students of FCRI in Mulug of Siddipet
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) guidelines define de-extinction as the generation of proxies of extinct species that are functionally equivalent to the original extinct species, but are not ‘replicas’.
