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Chakraborty, Rina
- Extending Awareness and Ideas to Save Water for Future
Authors
1 Social environmental and Biological Association, Kolkata, IN
Source
Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 12, No Sp Iss (2015), Pagination: 7-8Abstract
Water, surface or underground, fresh, brackish or marine, sustains life, serving as an important ingredient of protoplasm. In fact, water is life, river is lifeline and ocean is the womb of mother earth. It is needless to say that we need to keep water clean for everyday use for various purposes and we also need to save water for our future generation. We need to take adequate care of water in every possible ways and hence this communication to express our concern. But how we can save water for us and for our future generation!
Here we attempt to offer certain approaches that can be adopted and expressed and can create and extend awareness to prevent pollution of water, restoration of water bodies and upkeep of aquatic ecosystem health of the earth and especially of India. In this context, we not only need to take care of water pollution, but we need to take care of air, land and all life forms and life support systems those exist, linked with water as wonderful web of life. Herein we share our ideas as follows:
• To adopt ecosystem approach of management for all kind of water resources.
• To prevent industrial pollution, oil spill and also pollution of air, land and water to arrest settling of air suspended particulate matter and surface runoff of into water.
• To prevent eutrophication, bioaccumulation and biomagnifcation in aquatic ecosystem yielding hazards to human life.
• To prevent abuse of water resources and waste of tap water in domestic and municipal supply systems and also in agricultural irrigation systems.
• To document, quantify and monitor water resource systems, water quality and its health status at regular interval to understand the changes in aquatic environments.
• To promote social and environmental education amongst school children.
• To create awareness in protection, preservation and restoration of aquatic environment, refecting worship of water ingrained in the cultural tradition of India.
• To undertake environmental awareness programmes involving students in the contest on how to save water for future.
• To share approaches and ideas of saving water organizing seminar, symposia, workshop, etc., amongst the scientifc community and also at panchayat level.
• To lend hands in cleanliness of local environment and water resource systems.
• To encourage rain water harvesting and allowing scope for recharge of ground water.
• To help reduce global warming, climate change and sea level rise.
- Usages of Water Resources in the Forests
Authors
1 Social Environmental and Biological Association, Kolkata, IN
Source
Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 12, No Sp Iss (2015), Pagination: 17-18Abstract
Water is indispensible for sustenance of life and maintenance of ecosystem including forest ecosystem. Water resources in the forests comprise of rivers, streams, bogs, natural or artificial ponds and pot holes. These water resources provide drinking water to the wildlife and serve the purpose of bathing and wallowing of the wild beasts. All forest animals come to the water resources at least once either in day or in night and invariably leave their footmarks on the banks. From these footmarks both species diversity and population in a particular forest area are usually counted that can serve an important role in framing, formulating and implementing forest management measures. It is a common practice to build small check dams on the tiny forest streams for providing drinking water to the wild animals in the dry season. Not only that, these rivers and streams are good medium for dispersal of seed as well as spawning ground for many indigenous fish and other aquatic species. These water resources are also used by the villagers living in and around the forest to fulfil their daily domestic requirement of water. Usually the majority of Indian populace use the holy water of rivers to perform their rites and rituals. The villagers living in or near the forest also use these water sources for the same purpose. The fast flowing rivers of hill forests are also used for transporting logs from higher to lower elevations. Thus these water resources need to be conserved properly, not only for multivariate usage by humans but also for providing natural habitat to an enormous number of aquatic and semi-aquatic micro- and macro-organisms which play their pertinent role in the ecosystem, food chain and web of life.- Exploitation of Wild Resources through Wildlife Trade and Trafficking
Authors
1 Social Environmental and Biological Association, Kolkata, IN
Source
Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 14, No Spl (2017), Pagination: 30-31Abstract
From time immemorial man were used to hunt or kill the wild animals for their food, shelter or defense. But in the modern times this habit of killing is transformed from games to worst trade of the world 'the wildlife trade'. It includes the materials derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environments, living or dead or as a whole or part there off. In spite of so many acts and laws, poaching of charismatic animals like tiger, leopard, Rhino, elephant are not rare in our country as well as in the world. Not only these animals, bear, mongoose, musk deer, Tibetan antelope, crocodile, turtles and tortoises, snakes, monitor lizards, geckos and many others are also sacrificed for their different body parts due to some non-scientific beliefs. The all body parts of tiger, i.e., from bone, skin, nail barbs and fat have a huge market in South-East Asian countries. The developed countries of Europe and America use the wildlife products as fancies. Rhino horn is belived to act as an aphrodisiac but which does not have any scientific proof. Elephant tusk, skin or fur of mammalian species, bear's bile, musk pod, snake venom, reptile skins and many other animal body parts are included in the billion dollars illegal trade. Not only animals, the plants like sandal wood, orchid, medicinal herbs and many more are also included in this illegal trade.- Mammals of Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, India
Authors
1 Social Environmental and Biological Association, Kolkata, IN
Source
Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, Vol 15, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 195-204Abstract
The present work on Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), situated in the state of Odisha in India was taken up to provide consolidated data on the mammalian fauna for better management of the Protected Area (PA) in future. Road census and line transect methods were mainly adopted but for smaller mammals capture and release method was followed. Indirect evidences were also taken into account. This Sanctuary harbors 68 species of mammals of which 9 are globally threatened as per IUCN Red List. As per IWPA (1972) the threatened mammals are 22 in number of which 10 are under Schedule I and the rest are under Schedule II and 2 species are endemic to the country. Among 13 living mammalian orders 10 are found in the sanctuary. For better management, study on man-animal conflict, prey-predator relationship, breeding and foraging habitat and inter and intra species dependency to be carried out and special emphasis to be given on endemic and threatened mammals.Keywords
Satkosia WLS, Mammals, Threatened, Endemic.References
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