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This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. 0–9. January 2024 in India (1 C, 11 P) ... Category: 2024 in India by month. 1 language ...
The critical role of biodiversity in sustainable development was recognized in a Rio+20 outcome document, “The World We Want: A Future for All”. [ citation needed ] From its creation by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in 1993 until 2000, it was held on December 29 to celebrate the day the Convention on Biological Diversity ...
Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is an Indian ecologist, [1] academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, [2] a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. [3]
August 12 World Hirola Day [103] August 12 International Wolf Day [104] [105] August 13 National Honey Bee Day (US only) August 15 World Orangutan Day [106] August 19 World Mosquito Day: August 20 World African Wild Dog Day [107] August 26 International Whale Shark Day [108] [109] August 30 World Beach Day, aka National Beach Day [110] September 1
By the late 1980s, the initial nine reserves covering an area of 9,115 km 2 (3,519 sq mi) had been increased to 15 reserves covering an area of 24,700 km 2 (9,500 sq mi). [4] By 1997, 23 tiger reserves encompassed an area of 33,000 km 2 (13,000 sq mi). [5] As of December 2024, there are 57 protected areas that have been designated as tiger ...
The 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a conference that was held from October 21 to November 1, 2024 in Cali, Colombia. [1] [2] The monitoring framework agreed at the previous conference should allow the progress of the countries towards national goals and ...
With 23.39% of its geographical area under forest and tree cover, India is rich in biodiversity. A 2020 faunal survey of India by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) reported a total of 102,718 species of fauna, with 557 new species including 407 newly described species and 150 new country records. Among the new finds, 486 species were ...
As a pilot program, the WWF-India had introduced the program several months earlier in thirteen model schools. [5] One of the model schools, Salbari Higher Secondary School, was transformed by the program. Beyond cleaning up their school, the students set up a bird watching club, planted saplings with protective fencing, made a worm-compost pit ...