Teak plantation forests lack in biodiversity as no other plant grows under teak trees. © Basudev Mahapatra |
Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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Showing posts with label Ecosystem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ecosystem. Show all posts
January 31, 2020
The futility of India's teak forests
December 20, 2019
People’s movement brews against Subarnarekha Port Project
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“This land is dear to us because it has everything to offer for our livelihood. This is a fertile land mass where we grow paddy and many other crops. The Subarnarekha River has been a perennial source of fish, crabs and lime shells for land holding as well as landless villagers to gather food and earn a livelihood. The port will disrupt all these ecosystem services,” said Subash Chandra Chaudhury, 72, a retired school teacher of Chaumukh village.
April 05, 2019
Mahanadi needs rejuvenation plans to remain a live river system
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Mahanadi River at Mundali barrage near Cuttack city, Odisha
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At the centre of the dispute, since 2016, between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over sharing of water, River Mahandi is getting overstressed and its basin ecosystem degrading day by day
Mahanadi is the sixth largest river of India. It originates from a pool, 6 KM from Farsiya village of Dhamtari district, in the State of Chhattisgarh, and flows about 851 KM east through Odisha to reach the Bay of Bengal near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district.
May 30, 2018
Enterprising Odisha women take to selling fish to improve lives
Women in Odisha’s coastal fishing
villages have turned to selling fish and value-added fishery products
after eliminating middlemen and abolishing the home brewing of country
liquor, the root cause of their problems.
Selling fish at the local fish market, Dulana Das (40) of Rambha
village in Odisha’s Ganjam district took pride in introducing herself as
a businesswoman instead of a fisherwoman. “I buy fish every morning
from fishermen who fish in Chilika Lake and the nearby sea,” Dulana told
VillageSquare.in.“With a designated place for me in the market, and a 20% profit, I earn a good income.”

January 20, 2017
Ocean warming will kill fish, make them smaller and potentially toxic
No matter how near or far you live from the coast, you'll be
affected by it: ocean warming may become one of the biggest threats to
ecosystems and food security.
Ocean warming,
driven by increasing carbon emissions and rising temperatures, may
become one of the biggest challenges facing humanity and threatening the
Earth’s life systems, affecting even those living far from oceanic
coasts. Already impacting people, fish stocks and crop yields, it may lead to more extreme weather events and increased risk from water-borne diseases including cholera. Fuelling global warming,
it would put the livelihood of agrarian and fishing communities in the
Indian and Pacific Ocean regions at stake, cautions the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in a report.
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