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Corporates and Environment
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The Dawn of Solar –Part II
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-Kevin Lehr (kslehr@gmail.com)
..................On a recent visit to Hosur, an industrial hub outside of Bangalore, I witnessed a community of small manufacturing businesses running their manufacturing processes on diesel generators as the electricity supply was intermittent at best. For
these businesses, diesel costs can make up a significant portion of their operational expenses and the need for these systems causes the local environment to be polluted with the fumes, noise & smell of diesel generators. There are thousands of small industrial
sites like this throughout India and countless more around the world that could all benefit from small scale solutions providing more cost effective & cleaner solar energy.......................
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Endangered
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Save Wild Tigers-Action Abroad
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http://tigertrustindia.org/
...........In her keynote speech, Ms. Gosain described the 25 years of work by Tiger Trust India, and addressed the many challenges that wild tigers face there – habitat destruction, poaching and increasingly revenge killing of tigers by farmers who have lost
livestock to them. She also showed a film “The Truth About Tigers” by Shekar Dattatri which motivates it’s viewers to become a voice for the animals who have no voice of their own. She also introduced the internationally famous wild Tigress of Ranthambhore
National Park, Machli to make the stark comparison between wild tigers to captive tigers. Machli had 9 surviving cubs who themselves have produced 11 more, showing the power of saving just one tiger. ...................
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Save Wild Tigers-Action in India
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.................Dr. Chellam delivered the second lecture followed by a discussion. He argued upon the serious lack in conservation training for forest officials and for the lower grade forest watchers and anti-poaching guards. Resource provision in terms
of monetary benefits and other concessions as beneficial encouragements for the lower grade forest watchers and anti-poaching guards was also emphasized. Dr Chellam spoke briefly about the WCS Initiative and its research interest......................
Tiger Conservation Programme
Date: Feb 25-27, 2011
Venue: PSG Auditorium and Topslip, Anamalai Tiger Reserve
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Environment Education
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Online Environmental Courses-Last dt extended to 15th June
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• The Conservation Education Center of BNHS is managing these online courses.
• IndianWildlifeClub members are getting a discount of 5% on the course fee for all the four courses which are on offer as online programs.
• The course details are available at the following links
Last Date for applying is 31st May 2013
Please spread the word among your friends!!!
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Members Speak
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RWH on a war footing by the Serai Group in Bandipur, India
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Marianne de Nazareth
“Look at the deep trench that we have dug along the path,” said Manjunath.“We have to conserve every drop of rainwater that falls here as the hills beyond, prevent the clouds from bringing us liberal quantities of rain. These trenches carry the rain water to
ponds and percolation pits which are 10 feet by 20 feet and which are used to recharge our 18 bore-wells.”....
This is the only way forward say both Manjunath and Imran and it is heartening to note that instead of just buying tankers of water and depleting the ground water elsewhere which is the norm in India, the resort has its own RWH system already in place, even
though it is barely a year into its operations. For details contact: Coffee Day Resorts Pvt. Ltd., Coffee Day Square, Vittal Mallaya Road, Bangalore, Ph: 4001 2345 or www.theserai.in Marianne de Nazareth
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News and Views
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News and Views
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-Susan Sharma
Three tigers found dead in Corbett National park.. suspected cause : poisoning. With human animal conflict reaching unbearable heights and the DNA of the animal weakening due to lack of space and absence of corridors between forests, not to talk of
tourists hounding the animal like paparazzi, the future of our national animal looks bleak.
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