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CMS ENVIS Newsletter on Environment & Media Theme 3 World Environment About the Theme ������������������������������� 5 Article ������������������������������������������������������������� Day – 2016 7 In Black & White ��������������������������������� Compiled & Edited by: CMS Envis Team 10 Feature ���������������������������������������������������������� 14 View Point �������������������������������������������������� 15 Facets �������������������������������������������������������������� 17 Column ���������������������������������������������������������� Supported by: Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi 18 NGO Vignettes ��������������������������������������� 19 Conceptionalised, researched and published by Initiative of Open Window ����������������������������������������� 20 Films & Documentries ��������������� 22 Media Analysis ������������������������������������� www.cmsindia.org The main features of GREEN VOICE are:

Research Paper scholarly written paper contains original research results or reviews existing results or show a totally new invention related with theme

Column recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication accordance with the theme

In Black and White some of the leading environmental news coverage in the print media for over a quarter

Facets profile of a person who has contributed significantly to environment awareness through media tools

Talk Over exclusive interviews with people actively engaged in environment advocacy such as filmmakers, journalists, photographers etc.

NGO Vignettes profile of an NGO or civil society organisation also in accordance with the theme

Open Windows useful website links in accordance with the theme

On Air media update on programmes being aired by various channels

Viewpoint article by an expert on some contemporary issue

Feature focuses on particular people, places, and events, and it goes into great detail regarding concepts and ideas of specific issues

Media Analysis media trend analysis of environment news - quarterly

Latest Green Films regular updates on fascinating films by Indian filmmakers on environment and wildlife

Books latest books and publications on the theme of the newsletter

Environment calendar January May September 4- Oil Conservation Week 11- International Migratory Day 16- World Ozone Day 15 – Oil Conservation Fortnight 22 - International Biodiversity Day 28 - Green Consumer Day 30- National Cleanliness Day 31 - World No Tobacco Day October February June 2-8 Wild Life Week 2- World Wetlands Day 5 - World Environment Day 4 - World Animal welfare Day 28- National Science Day 8 - World Ocean Day 5 - World Habitat Day 17 - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 10 – International Day for Natural Reduction March 16 – World Food Day 2-4 World Sustainable Day July 21- World Forestry Day 11 – World Population Day November 22 - World Water Day 28- World Nature Conservation Day 6- International Day for preventing the Exploitation 23 -World Meteorological Day of the Environment in War and Arm Conflict August 10 – World science Day April 6- Hiroshima Day 21 – World Television Day 5- National Maritime Day 9 – Nagasaki Day 7- World Health Day 9 – International Day of the World Indigenous people December 22- World Earth Day 2– Bhopal Tragedy Day/ National Pollution Day 11- International Mountain Day 14 National Energy Conservation Day About The Theme World Environment Day – 2016 The Hindu, Chennai, June 7, 2016, R. Keerthana

June 5 is observed as World Environment Day (WED) since drives species into extinction. For instance, Javan rhino and Great 1974. Organised by United Nations Environment Programme, the apes have gone extinct in mainly due to poaching. Stronger policies commemoration is aimed at creating awareness on the need to protect and awareness can help tackle the problem. our environment. What can you do? NOW OR NEVER *Avoid products made of animals’ body parts. Have you heard of the story of a boiling frog? A frog when placed in *Accept the fact that animals are better off in their own natural habitat. cold water that is slowly heated, it would not realise the danger and would get slowly cooked to death. THREATS AND EFFECTS Most environmental problems have cascading effects with one issue Similarly, we do not react to threat that is to occur, even if we are aware leading to the other and some are also interconnected. It is to be noted of it. And by the time we are in actual danger and try to react, it would that most of the damages are anthropogenic. be too late. The same can be applied to our response towards global warming. Hazardous gases Earth is warming like never before. The last seven months smashed Greenhouses gases including water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane temperature records emerging as the hottest periods ever. Countries and nitrous oxide and ozone, are responsible for trapping the heat from around the world witness extreme climatic conditions and consequent escaping the Earth’s atmosphere. They absorb and emit radiation. Since damages to life and livelihood. One would not require any more the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide evidences to come to terms with the fact that global warming and climate has been surging. The emission is a direct result of human activities change are happening right now; right here and that they are not things such as burning of carbon-based fuels – the fossil fuels - such as coal, of the future. Scientists call the situation ‘a climate emergency’ and oil and natural gas along with deforestation and animal agriculture. warn that we are running out of time to bring emission under control. Melting Ice and rising sea level While it seems terrifying, we can take comfort in the fact that 177 Sea level is rising – more rapidly than ever. Oceans observe 80 per countries have acknowledged the impending danger and have signed cent of the heat added to the atmosphere. As the sea water warms, it the Paris Climate Deal aimed at holding the increase in the global expands in volume. The melting of land ice (glaciers, ice caps, and ice average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and sheets) due to increase in Earth’s surface temperature, also contribute to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre- to the rise. Rising sea level inundates low-lying areas, converts wetlands industrial levels. to open water, erodes beaches, worsens flooding, and increases the salinity of estuaries. Meanwhile, we, as individuals, can do our bit to take care of Nature and Earth in our own simple way. And what better time to start than on the Rapid loss of sea ice is affecting the animals the most. For instance, a World Environment Day! 2011 study found that bear cubs in the Arctic are unable to find food as they have to swim longer distances and they die as a result. Meanwhile, THE THEME penguins in the Antarctic, which are dependent on sea ice for breeding, WED 2016 is themed on the illegal trade in wildlife under the slogan are shifting the season. ‘Go Wild for Life’. Thousands of animals such as elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, turtles, snakes, pangolins, gorillas and hornbills are killed every Our cities suffocate year for their skin, horns and bones. Some are captured alive or dead India has witnessed a huge rise in asthma in the past decade, especially and sold for use as pets, in medicine, food, making of ornaments and among children, due to a spike in environmental pollution, experts have other products. Birds, amphibians, reptiles and marine animals also said. Beijing and Delhi were listed as two of the worst polluted cities in face the problem. The trade not only erodes the biodiversity, but also the world. While China ordered to close hundreds of pollution-causing

Green A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE 3 Voice INNOVATION IN ENERGY We have tapped every option we can to generate energy from sources other than fossil fuel — nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, solar, tidal, wind, wood and waste. We have been successful too. Recently, Germany hit a new high in renewable energy generation using solar, wind and water. It generated so much power, that it had to pay people to use up the surplus.

But that’s not enough. Our population grows, so does our energy requirement. We need constant innovations and trials to tap other possibilities. Let’s take a look at three recent ideas that took the world by surprise.

From a revolving door A Netherland based café installed an energy generator in its rotating door. So every time someone walked in for a cup of coffee, the door would generate a bit of power, harvesting the kinetic energy. The factories in 2016, Delhi experiments with car restriction schemes energy thus derived may be low, but every bit counts. to tackle pollution. Down south, a combination of factors including contamination in water led to fishkill in the lakes of Bengaluru. From a dance floor Light pollution, which we hardly recognise as a problem, has the Using the same principle, Energy Floors, a dance floor that converts potential to disrupt biological rhythms and interfere with the behaviour kinetic energy of dancing people to electricity, is widely been used. This of nocturnal creatures. Dumping of plastic materials, which find their dance floor uses human movement as source of energy. The generated way into the ocean, is chocking turtles and fishes to death. energy can inturn be used for the appliances in the dance floor itself. Installation of such devices are catching up. Water, water, nowhere Water scarcity is a global issue. More than 1.2 billion people lack From a football access to clean drinking water. It is the direct result of climate change, Students from Harvard University created a football that can charge a pollution and population growth. While some regions have inadequate mobile phone. Dubbed the “Soccket” ball, it uses basic technology to natural water resources to meet their demand, others suffer due to poor create and store electricity. When the ball is kicked, it moves around management of the available water. a magnet inside a coil and charges a super capacitor. Where normal balls have a valve to add more air, the Soccket ball has a plug socket India is reeling under severe water crisis and rural distress as the that is compatible with a DC adaptor. It can allow a light bulb to a mobile country faced two consecutive deficient monsoon seasons in 2014 and phone to be run from the energy stored inside. 2015. But the worst is yet to come, according to a study. It says more frequent drought monsoons are expected to come India’s way between BE THE CHANGE 2020 and 2049. Drought is not a problem of the third world countries • Reduce waste. Think before buying and before throwing away alone, even planned states like California have been facing drought for things. five years in a row. • Try to reuse and recycle Vanishing green cover • Use paper on both sides, because trees are cut to make papers. • Do not waste water. Close taps properly and use water judiciously About 30 per cent of Earth’s land area is covered by forests. Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3 million square kilometres of forests around the • Turn things off when not in use Earth were cut down. Forests are increasingly being converted to farms • Walk or cycle whenever possible. Try carpooling to school and are cleared for urban use and grazing by livestock. Tees are also • Use public transportation cut down for use as fuels. Without sufficient reforestation, deforestation • Avoid plastic bags can result in habitat loss, human-animal conflict, biodiversity loss and • Dispose trash properly aridity. Only 6.2 million square kilometres remain of the original 16 million square kilometres. • Plant trees and try your hands at gardening • Volunteer at a green movement FOSSIL FUELS http://www.thehindu.com/in-school/sh-science/world-environment-day/article8700536.ece Fossils fuels are the world’s primary energy source. They include petroleum, coal and natural gas. Carbon is the basic component of fossil fuel and their burning produces the greenhouse gas – carbon dioxide, which ultimately causes global warming. It has been found that 21.3 billion tonnes of CO2 is released per year due to burning of fossil fuel. 86 per cent of the energy used in the world comes from fossil fuels. Green 4 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE ARTICLE World Environment Day: World Environment Day — June 5, 13 celebs who will inspire you to save the planet “Go Wild for Life” Hindustan Times, Jun 04, 2016, New Delhi –Mayanglambam Ojit Kumar Singh Sanya Panwar (Assistant Professor in Zoology, Ramjas College, University of Delhi and Research Scholar of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University, Delhi.) As World Environment Day (June 5) approaches this Sunday, take cue from these stars who are On June 5 every year since 1974, people from selection and adaptation. If conserved and using their celebrity status to change the world across the globe have been celebrating the asked proper questions every species has for the better. We’re talking, Leonardo DiCaprio, World Environment Day (WED) by taking answers and solutions for every query and Matt Damon, Priyanka Chopra, Beyoncé, part in environmental action and becoming problem for us. Biodiversity loss today, unlike Angelina Jolie, Rahul Bose, Gul Panag, Selena agents of change for positive impacts on the past mega extinctions of the so-called Big Gomez, Kajol, and many more. the planet. The UN General assembly Five, is driven mainly by human activities. in 1972 designated June 5 as the World Here’s to giving back to the planet and saving Environment Day (WED) marking the first Recorded data indicates that wildlife crime Mother Earth. day of the Stockholm Conference on Human endangers iconic species such as elephants, Environment. One of the very important rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles. Leonardo DiCaprio resolutions adopted by the same assembly Declaration of the extinction of a subspecies of When we think of eco-friendly the same day led to the creation of the UNEP Javan rhino from Vietnam and the vanishing of celebs, Leo is essentially the king of the world. In 1998, (United Nations Environment Programme). the last western black rhinos from Cameroon he established the Leonardo The WED was celebrated for the first time in 2011, disappearance of the great apes DiCaprio Foundation to assist the world’s most in 1974 with the slogan of “Only One Earth”. from Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo, and other countries are all due to the human endangered animals and places. He also sits Since then the relevance of this day and on the board of several wildlife organisations, activities of trading on these wild animals. themes and slogans of the WED have been including the National Resources Defense Besides these, many lesser known species, on the rise and are made practicable. Council and the International Fund For Animal which however play very important ecological Welfare. Using his craft, he has produced This day serves as the “people’s day” to do roles (popularly known as keystone species), several media projects that have been something so freely and independently as to are also getting exterminated directly or dedicated to raising awareness on the need for take care of the Earth or become an agent of indirectly due to wildlife crimes. more environmental support, such as the short change. The theme for this year’s WED is on web film, Water Planet. the illegal trade in wildlife under the slogan The current trend of the global illegal trade in “Go Wild for Life”.The Global host country for wildlife for keeping them as pets is extremely Matt Damon unsustainable and is emptying our forests, the WED 2016 is Angola where the official Actor, writer, producer, director celebrations are taking place. Angola is rivers, skies, villages and mountains to supply and global water crisis champion today seeking to restore its elephant herds a steady stream of romantic and exotic non- – Matt Damon is juggling several and bring peace and prosperity where native pets to the ever hungry and not-well- responsibilites. The Hollywood environment becomes a part of the heart aware global consumers. Can you believe bigwig is fighting the crisis through Water. and minds of the people integrated with the that nearly 1.3 million African grey parrots org, which he co-founded. The organisation has programs across the world, and sponsors Sustainable Development Goals. were removed from the continent for the last 30 years for the international pet trade thus multiple fundraisers dedicated to bringing Raising the voice against illegal trade in threatening the species today? Those places, clean water to countries that need it the most. wildlife and supporting and joining the global where once the chirping birds enhanced the Its informative website also helps educate the public on alarming water statistics – like the fight against the illegal trade in wildlife are siginificance of those spots, are now filed fact that one in 10 people lack access to clean intended for a secure and more tolerant with the dull silences. And the ways these water. future. Zero tolerance towards the illegal species are brought from their native places trading of wildlife is today very much required to the adopted places and homes are beyond Priyanka Chopra for ensuring a tolerant future. all descriptions of sorrows and pains such as As campaign ambassador for drugging, chaining, starving, crowding and all Greenathon (aka the NDTV- Illegal Trade in Wildlife and possible means of tortures. Toyota Green campaign), Biodiversity Priyanka started the ‘plastic Illegal Trade in Wildlife and Biodiversity, which consists of the species, clean-up drive’ campaign in April, 2014 on genetic and ecosystem diversities, is the Economy the banks of Yamuna River, Agra. The main source of foods, medicines, shelters and The illegal trade in wildlife is also causing goal of Greenathon, a nationwide campaign started in 2008, is to spread awareness on innumerable services, is getting eroded alarming problems by undermining the sustaining greenery and raise funds for saving due to horribly illegal and criminal means of economies and promoting organised crime. It the environment and championing social trading and commodification of the wildlife is fuelling and feeding corruption and insecurity causes. The campaign also helps villages with and their products. Every single species in across the nations. By overexploiting the electricity, cleaning up rivers and recycling every possible part of the world is a magic animals and plants in their natural habitats by plastic bags. well and consists of products of natural means of overfishing, trapping and mutating the natural habitats, the wild lives being are rendered rarer and scarcer sending their commercial values uncontrollably soaring. Brain Horne of the Wildlife Conservation Society reports that certain species of Asian box turtle are now selling for as much as US $ World Environment Day 2016: 40,000 per hatchling. Such rampant activities Here’s how you can make Earth a better place cause loss and destruction of the habitats, loss of livelihood activities of the locals making IndiaToday.in, New Delhi, June 4, 2016 them even poorer. As per UNEP, the growing ‘illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth’s precious biodiversity and robbing us of our natural heritage.’ On World Environment Day, here’s Desire for exotic animals, plants and their what we can do to support this day. products are converting the poor residents and tribes in the wildlife habitats and biodiversity- Every year, June 5 is celebrated as World Environment Day with a new theme. This year rich countries into poachers armed by the theme is “Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife trade.” organised criminal syndicates. Many a time they outgun the security forces, loot villages The day is celebrated to raise global awareness about the significance of a healthy and decimate animal populations. Their environment and to solve various environmental issues by implementing some actions bloody haul is mostly transported by agents to protect nature and Earth, leading to a positive and healthy environment for all. World who bribe officials and undermine the security Environment Day is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). of national states. This year’s theme has encouraged a fight against wildlife crime. The day was established Conclusion in 1972 by the United Nation, after this United States instituted the Earth Day. The dimension of the illegal wild life trade On World Environment Day, listed are some facts and what we can do to is very deep and multi-faceted. And hence support this day: all possible means to control this crime is • This day was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 welcome. Stricter rules and regulations have to be formulated and implemented • The United Nation organisation calls the holiday its “principal vehicle for encouraging well. Understanding that environ-ment is worldwide awareness and action for the environment” important and at the same time it is fragile • The anniversary of the Stockholm Conference is celebrated as World Environment must be the guiding spirit of all the awareness Day every year. The conference was held by UN on the Human Environment programmes. Through the WED celebrations • Each year, the emphasis on World Environment Day is placed on a certain topic of seas of people from different nations and earth crisis groups have taken part in environmental • The name of the topic is usually decided by vote around March 1 action of great relevance. By grouping and channelising well the energy of each individual • The theme of this year is “ Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife trade “ and nation, the WED really has the power to • This year’s theme has encouraged a fight against wildlife crime generate humongous positive impacts on the • As per UNEP, the growing ‘illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding Earth’s precious planet. Wildlife and their conservation must biodiversity and robbing us of our natural heritage.’ be treated as personal issues. • All the illegal trade has been pushing species into extinction Burning of the 105 tonnes of ivory and 1.35 • More than 100 countries are involved in the public outreach holiday tonnes of rhino horn in Kenya last April was • The UN website says that it received a total of 6,437 pledges in 2014 a timely and symbolic action to end the poaching crisis. Such actions shall signal Here is what you can do on World Environment Day: to the buyer communities and the markets • You all can start from your home. Build a little garden or start with a sapling located near to and far from the associated • Fertilize public trees and gardens criminal acts. Whoever we are and wherever we are let’s “Go Wild for Life” to inherit a • Clean the roads around your house safer and a more tolerable world. Let’s • Say ‘NO’ to public transportion allow the wild life to move freely by enabling • Buy items made from recycled products. human transportation and our transports http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/world-environment-day-2016/1/683694.html free of the products of wild-life. We must be serious about the wildlife trades and crimes associated with them.

Source: (Mainstream, Vol.- LIV, No 25, New Delhi, June 11, 2016) http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article6472.html Green 6 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE COLUMN Beyonce Beyonce’s charity, BeyGood World Environment Day: Let’s go wild for life helps raise awareness on the –Rajan K Baruah needs of our planet. Only recently, (Liberal Youth Activist and Social Entrepreneur working with people for a vibrant civil society) the organisation’s site posted an article to inform the public of little ways we can One of the popular global events in recent years Wildlife crime endangers iconic elephants, all help treat Mother Earth a little better. Some has been celebration of World Environment rhinos, tigers, gorillas and sea turtles. In 2011, tips include going meatless one day a week, Day (WED). World Environment Day (WED) a subspecies of Javan rhino went extinct in recycling old cell phones, and even what kind is the United Nations’ most important day for Vietnam, while the last western black rhinos of cotton swabs are most eco-friendly! encouraging worldwide awareness and action vanished from Cameroon the same year. for the protection of our environment. Great apes have disappeared from Gambia, Angelina Jolie Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo, and other Along with husband Brad Pitt, Each WED is organized around a theme that countries could quickly follow. Lesser-known Angelina created the Jolie-Pitt focuses attention on a particularly pressing victims include helmeted hornbills and Foundation, which is dedicated environmental concern. WED 2016 is themed pangolins as well as wild orchids and timbers on the illegal trade in wildlife under the slogan to protecting natural resources and like Rosewood – flowers and timber are also helping conserve wildlife. She is especially ‘Go Wild for Life’. This year’s theme is directly considered wildlife! known for her help in responding to humanitarian connected to the people of Assam. crises caused by natural disasters. Huge efforts to counter the illicit trade - including Since its inception in 1974, World Environment stronger policies, awareness campaigns and Rahul Bose Day has developed into a global platform investments in community conservation and for raising awareness and taking action law enforcement - have scored some great Our very own Bollywood actor on increasingly urgent issues from marine successes. However, many species remain at and social activist, Rahul pollution and global warming to sustainable risk and it will take a dedicated and sustained Bose has been active in the fight against climate change and consumption and wildlife crime. Millions of effort by each and every one of us to turn the environmental protection. In 2009, Rahul, people around the world have been motivated tide. by the ‘people’s day’ for action, and are who represented Oxfam at the UN Climate increasingly weaving their activities into a This year’s theme for WED – Go Wild for Life Conference in Copenhagen, joined tens of global movement. – encourages us to celebrate all those species thousands of demonstrators at a mass rally and under threat and take action of your own to candlelight vigil outside the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. He also started the Rahul Bose Every year UNEP chooses a host country and help safeguard them for future generations. foundation to work on climate change issues. a theme. The main focus theme in last few We can do many things related to the theme. decades can be summarized as follows People of Assam are concerned about the Cate Blanchett • 1972 – 1982--UN designates June 5 as rhinos of the state. Rhino poaching for the World Environment Day in 1972; two years horns have got top priority in elections. In 2007, Cate helped launch the later, WED is celebrated for the first time Who On Earth Cares campaign It shows how important is Assam’s rhino for for the Australian Conservation under the slogan “Only One Earth.” its people. But in spite of many things last few Foundation (ACF). The ACF works • 1983 – 1992--WED’s profile grows as it years have shocked the people of Assam as to promote ecological sustainability, and has boosts campaigns around global priorities there were poaching. Like Assam, many other worked to protect some of Australia’s most- including climate change and sustainable regions are also facing problem with illegal endangered lands. Blanchett also made an development; official WED celebrations trade related to wildlife. Illegal trade in wildlife appeal for the charity SolarAid, and took part in start rotating around the globe is a threat to biodiversity. We need to come a short film to promote the organisation. • 1993 – 2002--Nations accounting for nearly together, build a team, plan and execute one-third of the world’s population take events and activities. Gul Panag turns hosting WED, including China (twice), Gul Panag is part of the Col We need to be vigilant against illegal wildlife Russia, Japan and Turkey; WED goes Shamsher Singh Foundation trades. Let us discourage people who use digital. and Gul 4 Change. It works any product made of wildlife. Together we towards basic sanitation, waste • 2003 – 2012--People around the world can make a difference and let’s take action disposal and effective employment of natural register more than 4,000 WED activities against illegal wildlife trades for preserving energy resources. In fact, she also formulated (in 2011) and visit the website more than biodiversity and protecting the planet (With a ‘green home’ by effectively employing water 4.25 million times (in 2012); the Arab world inputs from UNEP’s website). harvesting and solar power energy instead of and the United States host WED for the exhaustive resources. first time; WED draws attention to climate Editorial Note: This article is categorized change for three consecutive years. under Opinion Section. The views expressed Selena Gomez in this article are solely those of the author • 2013 till 2016 --WED embraces smaller and As a UNICEF ambassador, and do not necessarily represent the views of less-developed nations while tackling even Selena promotes clean and safe merinews.com. In case you have a opposing bigger topics: from sustainable consumption drinking water through the Tap view, please to share the same in the to the illegal trade in wildlife; the annual day Project. She has used Twitter as comments section. of action that began more than 40 years earlier goes viral on social media. http://www.merinews.com/article/world-environment-day- lets-go-wild-for-life/15916835.shtml World Environment Day: Let’s pledge to World Environment Day 2016: A look at the conserve precious environment resources, sordid business of illegal wildlife trade says PM Modi Zee News, June 5, 2016, Udita Madan DNA, New Delhi, 5 Jun 2016 Illegal wildlife trade is an unrivaled, flourishing business and is continually on the rise. The kind of torture and harassment that innocent animals are subjected to in the hands of poachers and traders is unfathomable.

As per the WWF, the trade involves hundreds of millions of wild plants and animals from tens of thousands of species. To provide a glimpse of the scale of wildlife trafficking, there are records of over 100 million tonnes of fish, 1.5 million live birds and 440,000 tonnes of medicinal plants in trade in just one year.

It is all courtesy illegal wildlife trade that human livelihood and the balance of nature is at stake.

This World Environment Day, the United Nations Organisation (UN) has pledged “Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife Trade”, making it the theme for 2016.

Last month, a leading online retailer came under fire for selling wildlife specimens and hunting equipment on their website, thereby appearing to encourage the illegal The UN’s theme this year on June 5 is ‘Zero Tolerance for practice. Illegal Wildlife Trade’. Soon after, this month, a wildlife trafficker was caught Marking the World Environment Day, Prime Minister red-handed in Vietnam, for attempting to sell the frozen Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the nation to take remains of Tiger cubs in order to make some sort of a pledge to collectively work towards conserving the “healing glue”. environment resources, adding that the Earth should be kept clean and green. The shock and horror of this act had barely worn off, when news of the raid in Thailand’s Tiger Temple began doing In a series of tweets, Prime Minister Modi said that this day the rounds, wherein, remains of over 40 tiger cubs were was a commitment to protect the environment and live in discovered in the temple’s kitchen freezer. A day later, a harmony with nature. Thai monk who was trying to flee with tiger skins and fangs, was nabbed by the police within the temple’s premises. “On World Environment Day, let us pledge to collectively work towards conserving precious environment resources,” Similarly, a wounded elephant was in the news a few days he said. ago, that went in search for help to a safari lodge because it was in pain due to a failed poaching attempt. “Let us live in harmony with Mother Nature and keep our beloved Earth clean and green,” he added. Tigers, Elephants, Frogs, Snakes and many more animals come under the radar of wildlife traffickers and traders, In his 21st radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on May 29, Prime due to the immense demand for their various body parts, Minister Modi called for protection of the environment which apparently contain healing properties. and said conservation of water and forests were people’s responsibility. Below, we have compiled a few facts that would aid you in understanding the magnitude of the threat to wildlife that is He also said that this year, the UN decided the theme of prevalent due to illegal wildlife trade. the World Environment Day on June 5 would be the ‘Zero Tolerance for Illegal Wildlife Trade’.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-world-environment-day-let-s-pledge- to-conserve-precious-environment-resources-says-pm-modi-2220079 BLACK & WHITE & BLACK 1. African Elephants: medicine. Statistics released by the United a platform to get her fans involved and asked Nation’s’ Convention on International Trade them to support the mission by donating $1 or in Endangered Species (CITES) showed that more for the tap water that they would normally 1,215 rhinos were killed in South Africa in enjoy for free. The Tap Project has raised 2014. A minimum of three rhinos are poached nearly $3 million since its inception and helped save children from waterborne illnesses in every single day. developing countries. 4. Pangolins: Jessica Alba Jessica Alba is the founder of The Honest Company, which Elephants are a massive target for poachers is an organisation that acts as and wildlife traffickers across the world for their a resource for families who are ivory tusks. Since the 1970s, ivory poaching seeking eco-friendly household products. One has cut the African elephant population in of the main goals of The Honest Company is half. It is estimated that the African elephant to promote sustainability and to leave future will be extinct within the next 10 years if generations with a plethora of resources. this practice does not cease. According to reports from the wildlife organization Save Largely trafficked and sold for their scales Kajol or as bush meat, Pangolins are hughly the Elephants, the price for raw ivory in The Bollywood actor has been China was $2,100 per kilogram, in 2014. endangered animals. More than a million part of the Help A Child Reach Between 35,000 – 50,000 African elephants Pangolins have been traded in the past 10 5 campaign for over three years, are poached every year. years. A report released by China’s Public which spreads the importance of Security Bureau for Forests and the University good hand washing habits around the world. 2. Tigers: of Oxford found that the average price for a She has been actively advocating the cause on kilogram of pangolin scales is available for various platforms in India and globally, and has sale for $600. The price of a kilogram of engaged with various policymakers to make a pangolin scales for sale in 2013 was twice difference. the amount as compared to 2008. Adam Levine 5. Marine Turtles: Adam Levine and his fellow Maroon 5 band members have pledged their support to Global Cool, an interactive website that fights global warming by motivating people The illegal wildlife trade also paves the way to reduce their energy usage. He is also a for the exotic pet trade. Tigers are one of founding member of Reverb’s Green Music the top most animals in the world’s growing Group, an environmental coalition of musicians list of endangered species. They are mainly that promotes awareness by magnifying the hunted down for their skins and fangs. The work of non-profit organisations and facilitating WWF estimates that there are 5,000 tigers eco-friendly projects in the music industry. being kept in US backyards, whereas, there Extensively used as pets and food, freshwater are only around 3,000 left in the wild. turtle shells are used for medicinal purposes Gisele Bundchen as well. Currently, around 80 percent of The Brazilian supermodel 3. Rhinos: Asia’s freshwater turtle species are in danger serves as United Nations of extinction, while approximately 28,300 goodwill ambassador for the UN freshwater turtles are traded each day. Environment Program, and won International Green Celeb of the Year at the 6. Asian Elephants: Green Awards in London last year. Her activism began when she spent time with an Indian tribe in the Amazon rainforest and became aware of the prevalent issues of water pollution and deforestation. She launched the Clean Water Project in her hometown of Horizontina, which promotes micro basin water harvesting The Rhino horn is one of the most sought-after structures in the region and the planting of animal body part for its apparent medicinal native trees. properties. Although, there is no scientific http://www.hindustantimes.com/health-and-fitness/world- evidence supporting the efficacy of the rhino environment-day-13-celebs-who-will-inspire-you-to-save-the- horn to treat illnesses such as cancer, it still Like the African elephant, the Asian elephant planet/story-907tEQ8qcQWUYtxW4mtfUL.html remains a popular ingredient in traditional is also at a grave risk of extinction. There are an estimated 32,000 Asian elephants There was also a ‘wildlife pledge’ taken by to environment-friendly causes in every step left in the wild. One-third of the remaining the participants that they will say “no” to they take. Members of Mangalore Bicycle population, which is approximately 30 per buying illegal wildlife products in order to Club have been observing Car Free Day cent, are being held captive in zoos, circuses, support efforts to curb poaching and illegal every second Saturday of the month since or used as tourist attractions. wildlife trade. October 2015. At Katpadi, members of MBC met Udupi Cycling Club members during 7. Red Pandas: Tilotama Varma, additional director, WCCB their morning ride. said, “World Environment Day has given us an opportunity to highlight the ongoing Once in Udupi, management of St Francis wildlife crime that has endangered the future Xavier Church invited MBC members to visit of many wildlife species in India.” their newly built church.

“While enforcement agencies like ours are The church was recently built adopting continuously strengthening and evolving to environment-friendly methods like rainwater control this growing menace it is important harvesting and efficient usage of electricity. that we have support of the end consumers The beautiful Jesus statue on the dome of the There have been rising reports of Red of these wildlife products,” she said. church is sculpted by Ashwath Rasquinha, Pandas being traded as pets in China. With who incidentally is a member of MBC, which less than 10,000 individuals left in the world, Shekhar Kumar Niraj, Head of came as a surprise to all the members, said the population of the Red Panda appears TRAFFIC India said that poaching is driven Ganesh Nayak, founder of MBC, adding it left to decline further. The high demand for wild by consumer demand and if the consumer them with a sense of pride. demand is curbed, poaching will stop meat, medicine and pelts, seems to be the http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/World- reason behind their poaching and trading, subsequently. Environment-Day-Mangalore-Bicycle-Club-members- use-pedal-power-to-get-the-green-message-across/ while logging is consistently shrinking their articleshow/52613312.cms “Tiger, leopard, pangolin, monitor lizard, black natural habitats. spotted turtles, star tortoises, parakeets and http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/world- Rallies, awareness drives, tree environment-day-2016-a-look-at-the-sordid-business-of- many more species are being devoured by illegal-wildlife-trade_1891864.html the illegal wildlife trade markets to the extent planting sessions mark World that the future of the species appears bleak Environment Day in city People pledge support to fight in the wild. The Hindu, Bengaluru, June 6, 2016, Vijetha S.N. against wildlife crimes “Illegal wildlife trade has emerged as one After a summer that brought home the reality Business Standard, New Delhi, June 6, 2016 of the most significant threats to the wildlife of depleting green cover in the city, more Scores of people from different walks of life and engaging public support is crucial to the citizens are becoming aware of the need pledged their support to fight against wildlife- success of eradicating this epidemic,” he for a greener Bengaluru. To mark World related crimes at an event to mark World said Environment Day on Sunday, citizens did Environment Day today. http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/ their bit to contribute to a greener environment people-pledge-support-to-fight-against-wildlife-crimes- – right from planting trees to holding cycle 116060500749_1.html The event was organised at Connaught Place rallies and awareness drives for bio-diesel here by the Environment Ministry, Wildlife buses and electric cars. Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), TRAFFIC- World Environment Day: Wildlife Trade News, WWF-India, United Mangalore Bicycle Club members “We were assisted by the BBMP’s Forest Nations Development Programme, Delhi use pedal power to get the green Division who supplied the trees. We ENVIS Centres, PETA and Maashakti. message across planted several trees across the whole neighbourhood,” said Praveen of citizen’s The Times of India, Mangalore, June 6, 2016 Celebrated globally on June 5, World group ‘I change Indiranagar’. Environment Day highlights various Mangaluru: Forty members of Mangalore conservation and environmental issues, with Bicycle Club (MBC) celebrated World Mayor Manjunath Reddy, as well as the a new theme every year. Environment Day by pedaling 100km from Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy, planted Mangaluru to Udyavara and returned back to several trees in parks and educational This year’s theme -- Go Wild for Life-Zero city. Out of the 40 members, 20 were doing institutions in the Sadduguntepalya ward. Tolerance for Illegal Wildlife Trade -- focuses their first 100-km ride and contributing their “Local trees that are known to be well-suited on the need to curb poaching and illegal bit to the environment. for the particular weather conditions in the wildlife trade. city were planted,” he said. Despite humid weather, riders enjoyed their Participants in today’s programme were ride to the fullest believing in the cause they There were also several initiatives undertaken engaged through wildlife films, wildlife were pedaling for. in Whitefield. Along with planting lots of trees quizzes, skits performed by students of law, in schools and on waysides, there were painting competitions and slogan writing The message was loud and clea r and all also workshops and talks held in some of competitions among other activities. members pledged to continue their support the malls. Around 30 volunteers spent the Green 10 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE morning planting trees with help from BBMP of sacred neem trees,” Bhubaneswar MP pourakarmikas. Tree guards and fences will Prasanna Patasani said. be put up around the 100 saplings. “We should not allow Odisha to face climate- An Electric Vehicle Rally, Exhibition and adverse situation like Maharashtra. The Workshop was organised by the Society of existence of human civilization and survival Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles and the of trees has to go hand in hand. It is high Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation time, we started massive plantation drive and the Ministry of Heavy Industries. in urban areas, which have turned into a concrete jungle,” Patasani said. Electric vehicles were first assembled at BMTC Central Offices and then set on the rally. The Forest minister Bikram Keshari Arukha and पया셍वरण �दवस: convoy toured the streets for an hour before culture minister Ashok Chandra Panda also ह�रयाल� के �लए ऐसा हो राता they returned to the venue. Karnataka State stressed increasing green cover of the city. Nayi Duniyan, 04 Jun 2016 Road Transport Corporation, had organised a

‘Green March’, from Lalbagh gate to the KSRTC Volunteers of the city-based organisation, हर पया셍वरण �दवस हम� अपनी जीवनशैल� के आकलन का मौका , , , office nearby, roping in several local celebrities. Trees for Tomorrow, distributed saplings मुहैया कराता है। यह �दन है जब�क हम न�दय� पहाड़� हवा कृ �ष

The occasion was also used to observe bus day among the dignitaries. The organization और �म絍ट� के साथ अपने बता셍व के बारे म� सोच�। सोच� �क �कस , by the BMTC, as well as inaugurate the use of spread message to ensure 100% तरह हम �च�ड़या पेड़ और इंसान के �र�ते को बचा सकते ह�। हमने bio-diesel in 135 buses. They also planted 500 conservation of the saplings that have been देश के पांच बड़े पया셍वरण�वद� से पांच बड़ी चुनौ�तय� और उनके trees at the BMTC offices and depot. A cycle rally planted. Other organisations such as Bakul हल को लेकर बात क�। was organised by the Bharat Scouts and Guides, Foundation and Marwari Yuva Manch also अनपम �मश्र Karnataka. distributed saplings. ु तालाब बच�गे तो ह� बच�गे शहर-गांव...

From September 2015 till now, change.org has Charles G Brown, former attorney general �पछले 30-40 वष� म� हमारे शहर� और started twelve petitions to highlight the plight of of the US and currently the president of दसू र� तरफ गांव� ने भी जो जीवन World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, the different lakes in Bengaluru. The organisation प饍ध�त व खेती क� प饍ध�त अपनाई है was a special invitee at the Raahgiri. “The उसका सबस े बुरा असर न�दय� पर is seeking urgent intervention from the Karnataka पड़ा है। बड़ी न�दय� को इसक� दहु र� government to help in saving the lakes. use of silver and mercury should be banned completely,” Brown said. मार पड़ी है। शहर� ने अपनी पानी क� �वक�द्र�य 핍यवथा को तोड़ा है। The broad theme of these petitions is the Aadar Foundation, Art Ya Craft and Art environmental degradation that is damaging the इंदौर, भोपाल, रतलाम, जबलपुर, रायपुर, 嵍वा�लयर जैस े lakes at a rapid rate and the growing need to save Godaam organised sit-and-draw art events शहर� म� आज से 30-40 साल पहले तक बहुत स े तालाब among school children. The BMC officials हुआ करते थे। ये शहर पर �गरने वाल� बरसात क� बूंद� को water bodies with immediate effect. planted sapling of 30 indigenous varieties संजोते थे। http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/rallies- awareness-drives-tree-planting-sessions-mark-world- at the newly opened kine house on city शहर के भजू ल को सम饍ृ ध करते थे, िजस े ज셂रत पड़न े पर environment-day-in-city/article8695004.ece outskirt. कु ओं आ�द से उठाया जाता था। ले�कन जब इन शहर� म� जमीन के दाम आसमान छू गए तो ये सारे तालाब न�ट Plantation drive at Raahgiri marks The city-based Plant Lovers’ Association also होने ह� थे। और �फर इन शहर� क� ꥍयास बुझान े के �लए कह�ं दर बह रह� नद� का पानी उठाके लाने का चलन चल distributed 200 saplings among the visitors. ू World Environment Day पड़ा। The Times of India, Bhubaneswar, June 6, 2016 “We have found Raahgiri platform a suitable one to spread awareness among people to इस तरह एक तरफ हमने न�दय� से पानी �नकालकर उनक� Bhubaneswar: The chief executive officer of love the nature and plants,” said secretary of जलरा�श कम क� और दसू र� तरफ इꅍह� ं शहर� से �नकल� Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited, R Vineel गंदगी लाकर उनम� �मला द�। इस�लए एकाध अपवाद को the association, Prakash Chandra Behera. Krishna, on Sunday said high resolution छोड़कर देश क� हर बड़ी नद� प्रद�ू षत हो चुक� है। छोट� http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/ न�दय� का हाल इसस े भी 煍यादा बुरा है। इनके आसपास images of the city taken from drones will soon Plantation-drive-at-Raahgiri-marks-World-Environment- लालची फसल चक्र ने इतन े 絍यूबवेल लगाए ह� �क नद� म� Day/articleshow/52614179.cms be posted on social media and the website of बहने वाला पानी भी नीचे �खंच गया है। अब बरसात के Bhubaneswar smart city to allow netizens get 12-15 �दन ह� इन न�दय� म� कोई बहाव �दखता है। an aerial view of the smart city. MPUVNL holds Painting Competition on Environment इस समय जोर गंगा, जमुना और नमद셍 ा जसै े इनी-�गनी दो चार न�दय� क� �चंता का है और सरकार� �व�व ब�क से The visuals, shot by a private firm, will हजार� करोड़ 셁पया लेकर उसे इन न�दय� म� बहाने क� Awareness highlight the green canopy of the city and योजना बनाती है। कोई प�रणाम नह�ं �नकलता। आने वाले The Pioneer, Bhopal, June 6, 2016 how it looks from the top. दौर म� इस पर समाज के साथ �मलबैठकर हम� जल-थल-

Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited मल इन तीन� को समग्र 셂प से देखकर इनके �नपटारे क�

The Sunday event, which focused on the (MPUVNL) celebrated World Environment योजना बनाना चा�हए। पीने का पानी शहर� को �बना तालाब� के भी सरकार देती रहेगी-ऐसा मान भी ल� तो भी इंद्र देवता World Environment Day, aimed at sensitizing Day on Sunday. A Painting Competition was से �मलने वाला पानी जब इन शहर� पर �गरेगा तो उसे हम audience on afforestation by giving example organized at Urja Bhawan, Shivaji Nagar, कहां ले जाएंगे? सोच� �क हम कु छ वष� स े 啍य� बाढ़ का of Jagannath cult that promotes the Bhopal along with a Debate Competition �शकार हो रहे ह�? न�दय� क� �चंता ह� हम� अ楍छे शहर� conservation of nature. “The three idols at at EPCO Auditorium, Arera Colony, on the �नयोजन क� तरफ ले जाएगी। the Jagannath Temple in Puri are made up occasion.

Approximately 130 students from class 1-12 Earth’s natural systems from reaching the Background from 43 schools participated in these events. breaking point. The day was established by the United Painting Competition was organized in three Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on student groups, Group A (Class 1-5), Group seeking to restore its elephant’s herds, the day when Stockholm’s United Nations B (Class 6-8), Group C (Class 9-12) from conserve Africa’s biodiversity-rich wildlife, and Conference on the Human Environment 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at Urja Bhawan. safeguard the environment as it continues to rebuild after more than a quarter-century of 1972 began. The first World Environment The winners of Painting competition in civil war. Day was hosted in 1973 and since then it is Group A were Riddhima Agarwal, Anand being held every year with a different theme Vihar School, Gunjita Sharma, Vindhyachal The year’s slogan “Go Wild for in different cities. Academy and Adya Ranjan, IPS School; Life” encourages everyone to spread the The theme for 2015 World Environment Day Group B were Antariksha Sethiya Jawahar word about wildlife crime and the damage it celebrations was Seven Billion Dreams. One Lal School, Arushi Ranjan, IP School and does. It also asks people to challenge all to Planet. Consume with Care. and the host Aditya Jain, Campion School and Group C do what they can to prevent it. country was Italy. were Sushruta Sarkar DPS, Vedant Singh, seeking to restore its elephant’s herds, http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/world- Scholars Home Public School and Vishesh conserve Africa’s biodiversity-rich wildlife, and environment-day-observed-with-theme-zero-tolerance-for- Ahirwar Shri Aurovindo. the-illegal-trade-in-wildlife-1465182959-1 safeguard the environment as it continues to Debate Competition was organized in both rebuild after more than a quarter-century of Rising ecological crimes, Hindi and English for students Class 8 to 12 civil war. poaching pose challenges (June 5 at EPCO Auditorium from 4:00 pm to 7:00 The year’s slogan “Go Wild for is World Environment Day) pm. The winners of the theme “Environment Life” encourages everyone to spread the Business Standard, New Delhi ,June 5, 2016 Benefits of Renewable Energy” for Hindi word about wildlife crime and the damage it Debate Competition were (KShama Nimore, With eco crimes like ivory smuggling, illegal does. It also asks people to challenge all to First prize winner of Excelance School), (Uday logging and toxic waste touching record high do what they can to prevent it. Giri-second prize winner of Sardar Public Patel of $258 billion globally, discovery of 40 dead School) and Vikas Mishra-Third prize winner The 2016 theme highlights the fight against the tiger cubs in Thailand’s famed tiger temple of Excelance School). Winners of theme in illegal trade in wildlife, which erodes precious and with more tigers poached in the first five English Debate competition were (Samavi biodiversity and threatens the survival of months of 2016 in India than in the entire Srivastava-First prize winner of Dehli Public elephants, rhinos and tigers, as well as 2015, makes the “Fight Against Illegal Trade School), (Sourabh Jain-second prize winner many other species. It also undermines our in Wildlife” a perfect theme for this World of Dehli Public School) and (Khushi Gupta economies, communities and security. Environment Day on Sunday, June 5. -Third prize winner of Sant Joseph School). Illegal trade in wildlife products is eroding “The amount of money lost due to The World Environment Day program Earth’s biodiversity and driving whole species environmental crimes is 10,000 times valediction included distribution of prizes and to the brink of extinction. Wildlife crime greater than the amount of money spent certificates to various winners participated endangers iconic elephants, rhinos, tigers, by international agencies on combating it -- in competitions by Vijendra Singh Sisodia, gorillas and sea turtles. just $20-30 million,” says a report by United Chairman, MPUVNL, Manu Srivastava, PS, Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) MPNRED & MD, MPUVNL. Dean of RGPV As per an estimate, in 2011, a subspecies and Interpol. Univercity and Senior Press reporter Vinod of Javan rhino went extinct in Vietnam, and Tiwari and many officers/ Employees of the last western black rhinos vanished from “Go Wild for Life”, says this year’s theme -- MPUVN & relatives of the participants were Cameroon. Great apes have disappeared and the crime syndicate has already turned also present as along with speeches from the from Gambia, Burkina Faso, Benin and Togo, towards “the wild”. Eco criminals are flush Programme Chief Guests for this occasion. and other countries could quickly follow. with money, and the laws are not strong enough to stop such crimes. http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/mpuvnl-holds- painting-competition--on-environment-awareness.html Lesser-known victims include helmeted hornbills and pangolins, as well as wild orchids According to forest officials and wildlife World Environment Day observed and timbers like Rosewood – flowers and conservators who stand as the first barrier with theme Zero tolerance for the timber that are also considered as wildlife. between poachers and wildlife traffickers, the demand as well as rates for animal parts and illegal trade in wildlife WED 2016 celebrations in India specimens has increased over last year. Jagran Josh, New Delhi, June 6, 2016, Jitesh On this day to create awareness for Kumar Jha “One kilogram of rare pangolin scales would environment, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu fetch a poacher around Rs 9,000-10,000 till World Environment Day (WED) was observed flagged off Tiger Express, a semi-luxury tourist last December; now it fetches them between globally on 5 June 2016 with theme Zero train, from Safdarjung station New Delhi. The Rs.18,000-20,000,” Vikram Singh Parihar, tolerance for the illegal trade in wildlife. train was launched on the World Environment a forest officer of Madhya Pradesh, told The day aims at inspiring more people to Day with an aim to spread awareness among IANS. take action to prevent the growing strain on people on tiger conservation. Green 12 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE India in April this year hosted the ‘Third According to government records, which

Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger experts claim widely under-report, about 3,622 सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा

Conservation’, which failed to set a stronger cases of wildlife crime were reported in India पहाड़ से लड़ोगे तो आपदा आएगी �वकास क� तथाक�थत अंधी दौड़ के mandate before the world to protect the in the last three years. A group of elephant कारण हम धरती को गरमाते जा रहे endangered species. India, at the same time, poachers was arrested last year from Kerala ह�। भारत स�हत द�ु नया के सभी also failed to focus on other species, many of with 18 elephant carcasses and 538 kg of सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा देश� म� लोग 핍यापक पैमाने पर पहाड़ से लड़ोगे तो आपदा आएगी which are on the verge of extinction. ivory. Most of the poachers, however, go free. अथमा, फेफड� और दय क� �वकासबीमा�रय� क� तथाक�थतसे ग्रत ह�। अंधी बड़े दौड़ तापमान के According to wildlife experts, pangolin, “The biggest issue is sustaining prosecution केकारण कारण हम ह� धरती �हमालयी को गरमाते 嵍ले�शयर जा रहेभी ह�। भारत स�हत द�नया के सभी sea-horse, sea urchin, North Ring and Red and investigation efforts when it comes to �पछल रहे ह� जो पूर� दु �ु नया के �लए खतरा बनेदेश� ह ुए म� ह�। लोग 핍यापक पैमाने पर Crown turtles, ghariyal, Gangetic sharks, wildlife crimes. Poachers arrested with tiger अथमा, फेफड� और दय क� Fishing Cat and Clouded Leopard are some bones and hides get away with bail for a mere हमार� स땍यता खतरे म� बीमा�रय�है। जनू 2से0 1ग्रत3 म� क ह�।े दा र बड़ेघ ातापमानट� म� of the species which might go extinct in a Rs 400 to 500. That is the problem we need to आई प्राकृ �तक आपदा तकेो एकारणक छ ोटह��- सी�हमालयी चेतावनी 嵍ले�शयर है �क हमभी few years -- given the pace at which they are deal with to stop all this,” Kartick Satyanarayan, �कस �दशा म� लगातार�प छबढ़ल रहेरह े ह�।ह� भ�व�यजो पूर� म�द �ु नहम�या कईके �बड़ीलए चनौ�तय� का सामखतराना कबनेरन ा हपएड़ ह �।स क ता है। मेर� नजर म� being targeted. co-founder of wildlife conservation organisation ु ु क े दार घाट� म� आई आपदा पूर� तरह मानवज�नत आपदा Wildlife SOS, told IANS. हमार� स땍यता खतरे म� है। जन 2013 म� के दार घाट� म� Wildlife experts and investigators, like थी।उ�राखंड �हमालयी देव भू�मू है जहां के वल आ鵍याि配मक पआयईट셍 नप्र ाकृ ��त अकन आुम�पतद ाह ोतनोा एचका� हछए ोटल�-े�सीकन चेतावनी यहां स रहैक ा�कर� औहमर Debbie Banks of Environmental Investigation Meanwhile, the wildlife organisation Wildlife �नजी�कस �दशाठेकदार�, म� लगातार�ब쥍डर� बढ़और रहे उ饍योगप�तय� ह�। भ�व�य म�ने हम�अपने कई वाथ셍 बड़ी Agency (EIA), have their hopes focused Conservation Trust (WCT) on Saturday चनौ�तय� का सामना करना पड़ सकता है। मेर� नजर म� के ु �लए पहाड़� का दोहन करना शु셂 कर �दया। पहाड़ इस े on the 17th meeting of the Conference of discovered the rare ‘Eurasian Otter’ in कैसेके दा र बदा셍�तघाट� म कर� आ सकतेई आ प थेदा औरपूर� त उꅍह�नेरह म ान पवलज � भरनत म�आपदा हम� the Parties - CITES (the Convention on Madhya Pradesh. हमार�थी।उ� रऔकाताखंड �ह यादमाल य�दलाी देव द�।भू� म है जहां के वल आ鵍याि配मक पयट셍 न क� अनम�त होना चा�हए ले�कन यहां सरकार� और International Trade in Endangered Species of ु द�नजीरसअ लठेकदार�, प्रकृ �त �ब쥍डर�के साथ औरहम िउ饍योगप�तय�जस तरह का बनेत ाअपने셍व कर �गवाथ셍े वह The fascinating discovery was made by Wild Flora and Fauna) -- which is to be held भीके �हमारेलए पसाथहाड़� उसीका दतरहोहन पेशकर नआएगी।ा शु셂 कहमर �पहाड़�दया। पकोह ाड़काटते इस े in Johannesburg, South Africa in September camera trapping over a vast area of 5,800 रह�,कैसे न�दय� बदा셍�त का कर राता सकते बदलते थे और रह� और उꅍह�ने लगातार पल भरक्रांक�ट म� हम� क� -- to force governments around the world to sq. km. in extremely rugged terrain of the बड़ीहमार� संरचनाएं औकात खड़ीयाद कर��दला और द�। पहाड़ करवट भी न ल� यह कैसे stop the “licensed victimisation” of wildlife Satpura hills and the Kanha-Pench corridor संभव है? इस समय '�चपको" क� तरह पया셍वरण के �लए बड़ेदरस आंदोलनअल प्रक ृ �तक� कज셂रते साथ हहै।म िजस तरह का बता셍व कर�गे वह species, like lion and tigers. in Madhya Pradesh done by the forest भी हमारे साथ उसी तरह पेश आएगी। हम पहाड़� को काटते department in collaboration with WCT. रह�, न�दय� का राता बदलते रह� और लगातार क्रांक�ट क� राज�द्र �स ंह “We hope that China would be asked to बड़ी संरचनाएं खड़ी कर� और पहाड़ करवट भी न ल� यह कैसे disclose its stockpiles of tiger bones, which Hope appears to be returning, but the question संभवन�दय �है ?क इसो ब चसमयाने क'�चपको"े �लए हक�ो कतरहानून पया셍वरण के �लए no one has access to,” Debbie Banks told of how to protect this newly discovered बड़े आंदोलन क� ज셂रतहम है।ए क आपात िथ�त म� पहुंच गए ह�। भ�मगत जल हम कओ ं के IANS in a conversation. species in the backdrop of existing laws ू ु ज�रए खींचते रहे ह� पर अब तो remains ambiguous. राज�द्र �स ंह कु एं भी सूख रहे ह�। इसका मतलब Indian Environment Minister Prakash http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/ न�दय� को बचाने के �लपए�ट होह ै क�ाकन ूनज ल के भू�मगत rising-ecological-crimes-poaching-pose-challenges-june- Javadekar has several times stressed on हम भंडारएक आख配मपात होि थरहे�त ह�। म �याद पह ंचर�खए गए 5-is-world-environment-day-116060500458_1.html ु stiffening the penalties for eco-crimes. �कह�। भ�रजव셍ू�मग तब�क ज लऑफ हम इं�डयाकु ओ ं क�के तरहज�रए हमारे खींचते पास रहे �रजव셍 ह� पर ब�क अब ऑफ तो As per a joint report by the United Nations Ola to plant 10,000 saplings to वॉटर नह�ंकु ए ं भ है।ी स हमार�ूख रह े ह सरकार�। इसक ा कोम तल इसब प�ट है �क जल के भू�मगत Environment Programme (UNEP) and celebrate ‘World Environment Day’ संकट के समय तीन तर� पर काम करना चा�हए। उꅍह� न�दय� को पनज��वत करनभंडारे के �ख配मलए कहोान रहेन लह�।ान ायाद चा �हर�खएए। Interpol, with an estimated ‘black revenue’ of ु ू The New Indian Express, 04 June 2016 �क �रजव셍 ब�क ऑफ इं�डया क� $258 billion, the illegal environment trade or NEW DELHI: India’s most popular mobile यह कानून न�दय� के तरहसंर� ण हमारे के पास�लए �रजव셍काम करेगा, ब�क ऑफयह “Environmental Crimes” has outstripped the स�नि�चत करेगा �कवॉटर जल नह�ंसंर च है।ना ओ हमार�ं पर �क सरकारसी भी त कोरह इसका app for transportation Ola celebrated World ु illegal trade in small arms. अ�तक्रमणसंकट के समय नह�ं तीन होगा। तर� यह पर नद� काम के करनाजल औरचा�हए। सीवरेज उꅍह� को Environment Day by flagging off a drive to अलगन�दय-� अलगको प ुनरखनेज��व केत कप्रयास�रने के � लकोए भीक ानबढ़ावाून ल देगा।ाना च ा�यहहए ।कैसी “International criminal gangs and militant plant 10,000 saplings. The event was graced �वडबं ना है �क हमारे पास न�दय� को पुनज��वत करन े के groups profit from the plunder of Earth’s by T.L. Satyaprakash, Deputy Commissioner, �यलहए कमानंत्राूनल यन �हदै यल� े�ककेन सकंर�ोईण क ाकने ून� लनएह �ं कहाै।म इकरेगा,सका सीधा यह सु�नि�चत करेगा �क जल संरचनाओं पर �कसी भी तरह का resources,” a UNEP statement released on Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon and Amit मतलब यह� है �क हम न�दय� को बचाने का ढ�ग करना अ�तक्रमण नह�ं होगा। यह नद� के जल और सीवरेज को Khatri, Additional Commissioner, Municipal चाहते ह�, असल म� न�दय� को बचाना नह�ं चाहते ह�। रा煍य World Environment Day said. सरकार�अलग-अलग को चा�हएरखने �कके प्रयास�वे जल संर�ण को भी के बढ़ावा�लए देगा।�नयम कायदेयह कैसी Corporation, Gurgaon who inaugurated the बनाएं�वडबं न 啍य��का है �क पानी हम ाररा煍ये पास कान �द�वषयय� क है।ो प ुन ज��वत करन े के The UNEP-Interpol report adds that activity by planting the first sapling. �लए मंत्रालय है ले�कन कोई कानून नह�ं है। इसका सीधा environmental crime has notched an annual इमतलबसके अयह�ला वहैा �कपंच ाहमयत , न�दय�륍यू� नको�स पबचानेल क ॉकारप ोरढ�गेशन करनाजैस े growth of 5-7 per cent. This is 1.9 to 3.9 times Over the course of the next couple of months, थानीयचाहते ह�, शाअसलसन कम�ो पन�दय�ानी क �को �व कबचाना� द्र�कृ त नह�ं핍यव चाहतेथा ख ह�।ड़ी करा煍यरना higher than Global Economic Growth, says 10,000 saplings would be planted in different चा�हए।सरकार� अलगको चा�हए-अल ग�क � हवे सजल� म संर�ण� पड़ र हकेे स�लएूखे स�नयमे �नप टकायदेने के बनाएं 啍य��क पानी रा煍य का �वषय है। the International Monetary Fund. areas of Gurgaon. �लए अलग-अलग मॉडल हमार� ज셂रत ह�।

इसके अलावा पंचायत, 륍यू�न�सपल कॉरपोरेशन जैस े Crimes like trafficking hazardous waste, Talking about the initiative, T.L. Satyaprakash, थानीय शासन को पानी क� �वक� द्र�कृ त 핍यवथा खड़ी करना Deputy Commissioner Gurgaon said, “Working poaching and logging cost the world economy चा�हए। अलग-अलग �हस� म� पड़ रहे सूखे से �नपटने के between some $91-258 billion in 2015, which towards attaining a pollution free, green and �लए अलग-अलग मॉडल हमार� ज셂रत ह�। was 26 per cent higher than previous estimates, clean environment is among one of the top while it stood at $70-213 billion in 2014. priorities for the government. Initiatives like these from a responsible corporate citizen The IRCTC will provide a six-day tour package, Bengaluru and then challenge three of your like Ola, help create much needed awareness including accommodation in AC rooms of three friends to do the same.” around environmental protection. We look star or equivalent hotels for three nights (one forward to the Ola’s support and assistance night in Bandhavgarh and two nights in Kanha This is the motto of the SaplingChallenge, an in building a greener and cleaner city; as well in Mogli Resort), sightseeing, food, safaris, initiative by young entrepreneur and author, as continuing to make available, reliable and inter-city transfers and travel insurance. Varun Agarwal, who is partnering with NGO sustainable mobility options for citizens.” SayTrees for the cause. Their aim is to plant Manocha said, “We have tried to leverage this 3,000-5,000 trees at key locations in and Highlighting the importance of such activities, allurement as a tourism product with huge around the city starting June 5, which is Deep Singh, Business Head, North, Ola potential and more such innovative products World Environment Day, and then try to plant said, “As a responsible corporate citizen, are in the pipeline.” The tariff has been fixed 50,000-100,000 trees in the span of a year. Ola understands the need for conserving the for single occupancy at Rs 49,500 I-AC, Rs environment and making our surroundings 45,500 for double occupancy, Rs 44,900 Since 2012, millions worldwide have taken greener for a sustainable future. This activity for triple occupancy and Rs 39,500 for child part in bizarre and viral internet challenges is aimed at spreading awareness about with bed (5-11 years). The fares for those including the Cinnamon Challenge, Hot the importance of conserving environment. travelling in AC 2-tier is Rs 43,500 for single Pepper Challenge, and 2014’s hit ALS Ice With the goal of creating mobility for a billion occupancy, Rs 39,000 for double occupancy, Bucket Challenge. So why not use this formula Indians, Ola is committed to provide smart Rs 38,500 for triple occupancy and Rs 33,500 to make a genuine difference? This was what and environment friendly commuting solutions for child with bed (5-11 years). struck Agarwal when he too was complaining for users. Categories like Ola Shuttle and Ola about the alarming rise in mercury levels. Share are playing a pivotal role in making riders According to IRCTC, all the rates are valid for “For the last month, I’ve been mocking the realize the importance of shared mobility and Indian citizens only. An additional surcharge city’s weather and cribbing on social media how they help address imminent issues like of Rs 4,000 per person will be charged platforms. I realised there was no quick-fix, growing pollution and traffic congestion. from foreigners for the safari booking at Bandhagarh and Kanha. Also, it is mandatory and it had to be something concrete. Shared Mobility can go a long way in to carry the same ID proof during the entire Then I thought of the concept of planting contributing towards de-congestion and trip, the number of which was given at the trees to save our city, but making it a viral reduced pollution in Delhi NCR. As a unique time of booking. campaign that is entirely people-driven and shared mobility offering, Ola Shuttle has the devoid of branding or corporates. That’s capacity to serve as many as 40 seats in The train would leave Safdarjung station at how I came up with the Sapling Challenge,” one go, addressing existential problems like 2.30 PM on June 5. On Day 2, travellers will Agarwal told Mirror. congestion, pollution and parking. arrive at Katni station in the morning, check in a hotel and then proceed for evening http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/news/Ola-to- A separate website has been designed for plant-10000-saplings-to-celebrate-World-Environment- safari (Khitauli Zone). On Day 3, passengers the challenge, and will be up and running in a Day/2016/06/04/article3466362.ece arrive at Kanha and they will go for evening few days. The link to this site can be found on safari (Mukki Zone) in Kanha. On Day 4 after IRCTC to launch ‘Tiger Express’ the homepage of the NGO SayTrees (www. morning safari and lunch at the hotel, evening saytrees.org), which will redirect users to the for travellers to explore tiger is being kept free for travellers. sightings at Bandhavgarh, Kanha sign up page. On Day 5, they leave for Jabalpur (135 km national parks A nominal fee of `250-300 must be paid from Kanha) for a visit to Dhuadhar waterfall DNA, 17 May 2016 online, and on the set date, the challenger in Bedhaghat. In the evening, they will will be given a sapling and physically made to The IRCTC will launch the train on World proceed to Jabalpur station to board the train plant it. They will then be asked to nominate Environment Day i.e on June 5. for Safdarjung station and arrive New Delhi in three others for the challenge, and the chain the evening of Day 6. Coinciding with World Environment Day, will continue. Since monsoon arrives in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Tickets for the ‘Tiger Trail Circuit’ can be months of June, July, and August, it was Corporation (IRCTC) will launch Tiger booked online at www.irctctourism.com. decided to kickstart the campaign then. Express on June 5 for travellers to explore http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-irctc-to-launch- Given the amount of work involved in tiger sightings at Bandhavgarh and Kanha tiger-express-for-travellers-to-explore-tiger-sightings-at- bandhavgarh-kanha-national-parks-2213396 nurturing a sapling once planted, SayTrees national parks in Madhya Pradesh. will look after it for a year after the date of This Environment Day, plant a “Sighting of tigers has always been a huge planting, following which the challenger will attraction for travellers and wildlife enthusiasts sapling be sent a reminder about maintaining their from India and abroad alike. The Tiger Express Bangalore Mirror, May 3, 2016, Prakruti PK tree. More details about the campaign will be rolled out by May 15, and those interested has been chalked out to make it an affordable If the unbearable summer this year really and glitch-free experience for those who want can keep a tab on the NGO’s website and got to you, why not actually do something Facebook page for updates. to have a brush with India’s famed wildlife,” about it? “Instead of ranting about the heat said IRCTC CMD AK Manocha. http://www.bangaloremirror.com/bangalore/civic/This- on Facebook, plant a sapling anywhere in Environment-Day-plant-a-sapling/articleshow/52083334.cms Green 14 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE FACETS

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गठन के बाद 1972 म� जोड़ते हुए कहते ह� �क तमाम संथाओं और जाता है। थानीय प्रशासन को चा�हए �क वह कचरे का - अलग-अलग श्रे�णय� म� बंटवारा करे। 륍यू�न�सपल सॉ�लड यूनाइटेड नेशन जनरल अस�बल� ने 5 जून को उ饍योग� 饍वारा नद� �ेत्र का अ�तक्रमण घातक सा�बत हो रहा है। जब तक इन तमाम समयाओं वेट 셂쥍स-2015 भी यह� कहता है। इसका अथ셍 यह� है �क �व�व पया셍वरण �दवस के 셂प म� मनाने क� घोषणा लोग अपना कचरा खद अलग-अलग श्रे�णय� म� छांट�। , ु क�। �व�भꅍन प्रकार के काय셍क्रम� के आयोजन का से सीधे त र � के से नह�ं �नपटा जाता है तब तक �व�व पया셍वरण �दवस का सह� उ饍दे�य प्राꥍत नह�ं अगर कचरे को अलग-अलग नह�ं �कया जाता है तो उससे एकमात्र मकसद यह� होता है �क आने वाल� पीढ़� �कया जा सकता है। ज셂रत इस बात क� है �क बहुत ह� �न륍न श्रेणी का �धन बनता है। यह� वजह है �क पया셍वरण क� र�ा का मह配व समझ स के । उसक� छंटनी सबसे मह配वपण 셍 है। के वल पणजी न े ह� इस तमाम वैि�वक संथाएं और नाग�रक, अपने तर ू सकारा配मक 饃ि�ट से देखा जाय तो सबसे 煍यादा छंटनी का गंभीरता स े पालन �कया है। के रल के अलापूझा पर व�ारोपण, कचरे से परहेज, वाय प्रदषण से व�ृ ारोपण इसी �दन होते ह�। तमाम देश� म� इस ृ ु ू म� छंटनी अलग तरह से होती है। यहां नगर पा�लका कचरा इक絍ठा नह�ं करती है 啍य��क उसके पास इसके �नपटारे के एक �दन लाख� पेड़ लगाये जाते ह�। जनसँ奍या के परहेज कर� और इस बारे म� सरकार� 饍वारा स奍त �लए कोई जगह नह�ं है। शहर का एक मात्र ट्र��चंग ग्राउंड कानून न �सफ셍 बनाएं जाएं, बि쥍क लागू भी �कये �लहाज से बात कर� तो एक अनुमान के उसके आसपास रहने वाले लोग� ने बंद कर �दया है।

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और अगर हम पया셍वरण क� र�ा नह�ं कर पाये तो रखने से भी परहेज करनी होगी, 啍य��क य�द 셂प से काम कर रहे वेट �रसायक�लंग से啍टर के ज�रए हम� �बजल� चा�हए तो, न�दय� के ऊपर बाँध कचरा इक絍ठा करने पर जोर �दया। इस तरह नगर पा�लका द�ु नया भर के हजार� 饍वीप डूब जाय�गे। मौसम ने बहत पैसा बचाया जो कचरे को इक絍ठा करने और उसे बनाये ह� जाय�गे। इ स के साथ य�द हम सबको ु वै�ा�नक� का मानना है �क 嵍लोबल वॉ�म�ग क� ढोने म� खच 셍 होता था। मौजूदा दौर म� समया यह है �क

वजह से ह� अब हर साल गम� के मौसम म� ज셂रत शहर� सु�वधाएं चा�हए तो पया셍वरण असंतुलन क� कचरे ढोने का कॉꅍट्रे啍ट लेने वाल� को कचरे क� मात्रा के आधार पर पैसा �मलता है। से 煍यादा गम� पड़ने लगी है। वह�ं वषा셍 �पछले कई ओर बढ़ेगा ह�। इस असंतुलन को �कस प्रकार �नयं�त्रत �कया जाय, इसी म� समाज और सरकार साल� से औसत से कम होती जा रह� है। 嵍लोबल शहर नगरपा�लकाएं भी पाती ह� �क कचरे को इक絍ठा करना, वॉ�म�ग के एक नह�ं हजार� कारण ह�, िजनम� सबसे का तालमेल मु奍य रोल �नभाएगा। प�ट है �क उसका प�रवहन और उसे एक जगह इक絍ठा कर देना उसे , , , बड़ा कारण बेतरतीब शहर�करण और हम� �बजल� पानी एसी वाहन� इ配या�द का बेहद �रयूज करने से 煍यादा आसन काम है। इसम� बदलाव के सावधानी से उपयोग करना होगा, 啍य��क एक- �लए ल�ड�फल टै啍स लगाना चा�हए।अभी कचरे ट्र��चंग ग्र ाउं ड औ饍यो�गक�करण है। इस सꅍदभ셍 म� और 煍यादा तक पहंचाने के �लए पैसा �दया जाता है जब�क होना यह एक 핍यि啍त का योगदान पया셍वरण संतलन पर ु से 煍यादा लोग� को पया셍वरण प्रेमी बनाने के �लये ु चा�हए �क कचरे के �नपटान के �लए पैसा �दया जाना " जाग셂क करने के अलावा दसू रा कोई राता बेहद प्रभावी असर छोड़ेगा। बात अगर वैि�वक चा�हए। इससे अप�श�ट के �नपटान से जुड़ी इंडट्र� को मदद �मलेगी और उसे बढ़ावा भी। इससे यह भी संभव होगा �क बचता नह�ं है। भारत के प्रधानमंत्री नरेनद्र् मोद� संकट क� हो तो भले ह� �कसी एक 핍यि啍त का �नण셍य बहत छोटा लगता है, ले�कन जब अरब� शहर म� कचरे का ढेर नह�ं लगेगा। हम� कचरा इक絍ठा करने ने अपने आवासीय लॉन म� कदमब् का एक पौधा ु क� 핍यवथा को उ쥍टा करने क� ज셂रत है। तभी हम अपने , लगा कर प्रतयेक् प�रवार से आने वाल� वषा셍 ऋतु लोग एक ह� मकसद से आगे बढ़ते ह� तो बड़ा शहर� को साफ रख पाएंगे। प�रवत셍न आता है।" संयु啍त रा�ट्र के महास�चव म� एक पेड़ लगाने का आग्रह करते हुए कहा �क

जैसे हम सांसा�रक वसत् ुओ ं को धारण करने म� बान क� मून क� यह बात भले ह� आपको छोट� लग रह� हो, ले�कन बात जब पया셍वरण क� आती गव셍 महसूस करते ह�, वैसे ह� हम� प�रवार 饍वारा है, तो ये दो लाइन� दो �कताब� का 셂प ले सकती लगाए गए व�ृ � के �लए भी गव 셍 होना चा�हए। , जाग셂कता क� 饃ि�ट से प्रधानमंत्री का यह ह�। भारतीय संकृ �त म� नद� व�ृ और प्रकृ �त का पहले से ह� बेहद मह配वपण 셍 थान है, ज셂रत बस कथन भी सवथ셍 ा उपयु啍त है �क प्रकृ �त के ू

साथ सामंजय बनाकर रखना ह� धरती पर अपने प्राचीन व셁प को आधु�नकता के �लहाज , प्रलयकार� िथ�त से बचने का एकमात्र उपाय है। से ढालने भर क� है �फर शायद हम� पया셍वरण को । इस अवसर पर प्रधानमंत्री ने पौधे के �नकट एक लेकर डरने क� आव�यकता ह� न पड़े

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जल आपू�त셍 भी सु�नि�चत होती है। देखा जाय तो from each family to plant 100 trees. This TALK OVER simply has to be a movement – one has to recognise the need of this for the future.

‘Hills suffer high The people must identify their own needs and government policy regarding the poverty due to poor environment and how forests are maintained and what is planted must be planned through land use … water, a consultative process now.

tree conservation Imposing the government’s will on the people has got us this far and caused the damage crucial – but govt. that it has.

only talks to How do you view the government’s role yes-men’ in managing India’s environment? The government’s clearly stated role cannot be one of making money or profits at the expense of the people.

The Times of India, its plantation was promoted by successive As a welfare state, governments must look May 18, 2016 governments thereafter. The natural flora out for the people and ensure that they are Uttarakhand was recently hit by forest and fauna was tampered with because cared for. fires that raged on for days. Speaking with pine was an excellent source of wood and The hills across India have the highest levels Swati Mathur, Padma Vibhushan-awarded charcoal – easy money, in other words, for of poverty today – there is a direct correlation environmental activist Sundarlal Bahuguna governments. between this poverty and the way land is discussed the prevalence and prevention But pines leave no space for wild animals used. For the hills to prosper, land use must of forest fires, India’s key environmental to roam and pine combs also burn easily. change drastically. concerns, how modern government policies The tree not only soaks up moisture from must be re-oriented towards the people – India is an agrarian state. Our land use must the ground, it’s also a key contributor to high and why the authorities don’t listen to him: be planned in a way that the agricultural levels of acidity in the soil. economy thrives. Forests in Uttarakhand burned for over To repair, even to some extent, the sustained 90 days, spreading smoke, causing Planning is critical, not just for land use, but damage that’s been done to the environment disruptions – what causes these fires? also for the conservation of water. Water thus, there is a need to go back to planting This is a regular phenomenon in the hills scarcity is affecting each one of us across varieties that are native to the local landscape when the tops of trees catch fire due to high the country. Ultimately, all of this links back – trees like walnuts or those with broad leaves temperatures. to allowing and promoting natural flora and should be encouraged now. fauna – rather than letting commerce drive Once this starts, there’s little that can be Governments must consult the local people all our decisions. done to stop it – but considering that this and get them on board as partners in planning is an annual affair, there should have been You’ve been awarded the Padma for the future. adequate preparedness by the state to tackle Vibhushan for your contribution to the fires. We should look at planting trees that can be environment and society – how often useful to the local population now – and to does the government consult you on The hills need a long-term strategy that repair the damage, these forests of pine must issues of environmental conservation involves its people. The bulk of the forest go. and planning? land belongs to the government – they must Governments only want to talk to people find solutions to mitigate this damage. What do you see as the way forward? who are in agreement with their policies and I think conservation of water on the hills is Strengthening their own preparedness is ideas. absolutely critical – water as a finite natural critical to this. resource needs to be conserved and not just On matters relating to the environment What kind of preparedness does this for the hills. The entire country needs it and and conservation, my views are very require? faces an acute water shortage today with clear – and they are not popular with the government. Well, primarily the problem lies in the rampant ground water depleted as well. and commercial plantation of trees on the People need to be roped in to work for the http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-interviews- hills – for instance, pine wood. This variety blog/hills-suffer-high-poverty-due-to-poor-land-use-water- environment as a collective cause too. There was brought into India by the British and tree-conservation-crucial-but-govt-only-talks-to-yes-men/ is a need, for instance, to get a commitment Green 16 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE NGO VIGNETTE वंदना �शवा �व�वधता ख配म होना ह� कृ �ष का संकट

भुखमर� और कु पोषण हमारे देश क� बड़ी समयाए ं ह�। कृ �ष http://saytrees.org/ cities. We pro-actively engage in identifying मॉडल क� खा�मय� के कारण Bangalore, fondly called “The city of Gardens” potential areas for plantation, keeping in ह� ये दोन� हमारे सामने ह�। inspired fables and verses alike. With an mind the biodiversity and ecological milieu of भारत जैसे देश म� इस समय यह� माना जा रहा है �क अगर unbelievably pleasant weather throughout the local area. We try ensuring that the local लोग रसाय�नक उव셍रक� का the year, it was a green haven for decades. communities reap multifold benefits; besides इतेमाल नह�ं कर�गे तो देश म�

Corporatisation of the city and rapid influx of restoring the green cover, the trees also भुखमर� फै ल जाएगी। the IT industry brought jobs and investments provide them with fruits, flowers, leaves etc galore, but took a toll on the natural beauty the commonly used in the community life. हालां�क रासाय�नक उव셍रक जो �क एक तरह का जहर ह� वे खा饍य सुर�ा को न�ट कर रहे ह�। वे जमीन क� उवर셍 ता को ख配म कर रहे ह�, उन क�ट� को मार रहे ह� जो फसल के �लए उपयोगी ह� और उन �तत�लय� को भी न�ट करते जा रहे ह� जो परागण म� सहायक होती ह�। इंडिट्रयल प्रॉड啍शन ने हमारे सामने कई इकॉलॉिजकल और सामािजक समयाएं खड़ी कर द� ह�। हम� खा饍य उ配पादन के प्रकृ �त स륍मत तर�क� क� ओर लौटना होगा। अभी हम िजन तर�क� के ज�रए यह कर रहे ह� व े प्रकृ �त के �व셁饍ध ह�।

भारतीय संदभ 셍 म� क�ष नी�त यह� है �क हम पैदावार बढ़ाएं। ृ हमारा उ饍दे�य उपज से �मलने वाले पोषण को बढ़ाना नह�ं है। 煍यादातर �कसान एक ह� तरह क� फसल लेते ह� 啍य��क वह द�ु नयाभर म� अ楍छा मुनाफा देती है। इससे फसल क� एकरसता हो गई है। हमार� जैव-�व�वधता ख配म हो रह� है। फसल म� पोषण आता है �म絍ट� म� मौजूद पोषक त配व� स े ले�कन जब पूर� जमीन ह� रसायन और हा�नकारक त配व� से भर� है तो हमार� उपज म� पोषण कहां से होगा। city was blessed with. While concrete jungles Our mission is to sensitise and empower http://naidunia.jagran.com/magazine/tarang- started birthing, trees were felled at a pace people to give back to nature and live in special-article-on-world-environment-day-751883 that worried the old timers and tree lovers. an environment conducive to their health

That’s when a motley group of individuals - and well-being. Say Trees inspires citizens software engineers at work and passionate to spare just a few hours on weekends tree lovers at heart came together, and and work towards making their cities, and ‘SayTrees’ was born. their lives greener. For seven years, we

have worked untiringly with individuals and

SayTrees is a professionally run group of corporate teams alike to help change the ordinary people extraordinarily determined to landscape in Bangalore. We take pride in protect the environment not just by themselves, having fostered a buzzing community of tree but also by sensitising others towards the lovers who continue to inspire and induct so importance of environment conservation many more in their fold. And yet, we are just and goading them on to participate in tree- at the beginning of a revolution. Our long plantation campaigns. The group consists term plans entail taking tree plantation drives of passionate nature lovers, who juggle to more number of cities and inducting many corporate jobs during the week with their more tree enthusiasts, particularly corporate love for trees over the weekends. Though it teams, to be able to amplify both scale and started off as a weekend pursuit in 2007 now impact of our efforts. it does more than 50 tree plantation drives in 4 months of monsoon. SayTrees spearheads Interested in being a part of our mission? a variety of initiatives including research, SayTrees! education, sensitisation and advocacy around Address: C503, MidwayCity, Basapura Road, the importance of environmental preservation Hosur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. and tree plantation. The group thrives on its 560100 vast volunteer base that runs into thousands, from young children to busy professionals, E-mail:[email protected] housewives and retired citizens. Today, SayTrees organizes tree plantations and Telephone: +91-9008659007, drives various initiatives across several Indian +91-8867391150, +91-9742160718 Green 17 Voice FEATURE greenery and horticulture in Talupula mandal, the images of the parameters across the Anantapur), Protect Himalayas (to promote earth each time you open it and procures the World Environment Day: A step environmental awareness, check soil erosion details with the respective units. closer to our roots around Uttarakhand), Enrich Biodiversity (in Takari village, Maharashtra), Green Thar WWF Together The Hindu, Hyderabad, June 3, 2016, Srivathsan Nadadhur (in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan) and Green Leh Ladakh. For every sapling you pay for, there’s Ahead of World Environment Day, here’s the a ‘My Forest’ option that visually showcases tech way to track environmental changes and the difference you make. participate to protect it Green Car We’re often caught in situations where we think of giving back to our immediate surroundings or at least, have this innate desire to be aware of the environmental changes that affect the globe.

Yet many of us don’t quite know where to Do you know there are 400 types of sharks or start. Technology comes to the aid of such that polar bears have the ability to swim over people, doing its bit to bridge this gap. Ahead 426 miles? That the rhino’s skin is two inches of World Environment Day on June 5, we take thick? More such facts welcome you as you a look at some websites and apps that take hold on your nerves for an elaborate us a step closer in this initiative and staying installation time to download WWF Together, connected with our immediate environment. an interactive mobile app that’s equipped with interesting information about endangered SankalpTaru species around the world. From being able to take a virtual selfie with the species, and games that don’t force feed information and well-researched facts, WWF Together does make you more aware of the threats surrounding their existence and how you could do your bit to help too. Swacch Paryatan Think twice before you despair that nothing can be done to maintain our historical monuments The first and the largest carpooling NGO in in good shape. Among the better aspects of the country, Green Car brings together car the Swacch Bharat initiative, this app, jointly owners and travellers across India and lets maintained by the Ministry of Tourism and them coordinate their travel needs. Ministry of Culture, lets you capture the filth accumulated in several monuments and The website-based service is a direct C2C notify about it to the immediate nodal officer service sans a third-party, that has two for swift action. Launched only four months options, ‘Post your ride’ and ‘Find your ride’ ago, the historical site-list in the app currently offering time-bound carpooling solutions includes 25 heritage monuments including to its users, with various riding and budget Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Humayun’s Tomb, sharing options. Qutab Minar and Red Fort. More such sites Earth Now are expected to be added in the near future. The app does have its pitfalls with regard to An app officiated by NASA, it makes use of text detection, but we are not making a fuss An app-cum-website, named after an NGO an instrument (that collects infrared imagery about that. that facilitates plantation and environmental and measurements of land, atmosphere and oceans) in an orbiting spacecraft to http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/ahead-of- projects across the country, helps mobile world-environment-day-heres-the-tech-way-to-track- users to plant a sapling by paying just Rs deliver information on various factors (air environmental-changes-and-participate-to-protect-it/ article8686638.ece 149. Interestingly, there’s an option to temperature, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon donate a plant of your choice based on your monoxide, sea levels, water vapour) across zodiac sign. They are currently working on every area on the earth. No particular technical projects including Green Deccan (to promote knowhow is required here, as the app loads Green 18 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE OPEN WINDOW World Environment Day United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) http://wed2016.com/ http://www.unric.org/en/world-environment-day/26969-india-hosts-environment-day/

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Green A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE 19 Voice EVENTS World Environment Day 2016 • There was a poster making,slogan writing, T-shirtand towel painting competition that saw many enthusiastic people from all World Environment Day celebrated at Raahgiri, Connaught Place on age groups participating in it. An enthralling NukkadNatak drove 5th June, 2016. The programme was based on the theme of UN for a lot of attention. this year “Go Wild for Life” with slogan “Zero Tolerance for the Illegal Wildlife Trade”. To support the cause many organisations such as • More than 700 people signed on the pledge wall (I PLEDGE to help UNDP, WWF, PETA, MoEFCC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and STOP POACHING and ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE by refusing Climate Change) and Delhi based ENVIS Centres(CMS, TERI, SPA, to buy illegal wildlife products). IES, JNU, CPCB, Sulabh, and WWF) came together and planned this event at Raahgiri. • There were three sessions of a March organised from Rajiv Chowk Metro Gate number 3 to round of Connaught Place inner circle, to generate awareness on the issue.

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• Union Minister for State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (Independent Charge) Shri Prakash Javadekarsent a message to save animals through his pre-recorded speech and Officers of the Ministry including Mr. Ajay Narayan Jha, Secretary, appended to the masses to refrain from indulging in Illegal Wildlife (MoEF&CC) Shri P.K. Dash, Addl. Secretary and Financial Adviser Trade. and Shri Yashvir Singh, Economic Advisor, participated in the above mentioned event and visited ENVIS exhibition also. • Amongst the events conducted were quiz competition highlighting issues on wildlife trafficking, awareness generation on solid waste management, and various types of pollutions.

Green 20 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE Green A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE 21 Voice MEDIA ANALYSIS Environment being an extremely sensitive aspect, its adequate In the month of January, NDTV 24X7 gave the maximum coverage (28 coverage becomes all the more mandatory. It is almost the backbone minutes) to news on Environment & Wildlife, followed by DD News (18 of our survival and consistent maintenance on earth. Electronic media minutes), Aaj Tak (15 minutes) and ABP News (05 minutes).CNN-IBN needs to lend the required space and structure to the environment that and Aaj Tak gave 2 minutes of coverage time on environment & wildlife it rightly holds. Its only then that a mature and palpable interaction will during this month. be made possible. Fig 1: Coverage of Environment and wildlife Stories by News Channels between 08-10 pm (Time spent in minutes) Undoubtedly society and electronic media are congenially intertwined. They have very symbiotic relationship and have extraneous influence on each other. How ever the need is to accommodate environment effectively so that the validity of its essence is comprehended and widespread understanding is generated.

CMS ENVIS Centre has been collating and analysing the prominent news channels coverage on environment and wildlife issues in the month of January - March 2016. Methodology Over the years CMS Media Lab has acted as a source for the CMS ENVIS Centre because it has undertaken significant experimentation Source: CMS Media Lab to develop a robust and rigorous methodology as given below. The In February, the total time spent on covering environment & wildlife content analysis broadly covers qualitative and quantitative aspects. stories was 85 minutes, led by Zee News (31 minutes), ABP News (25 Prime time band: The prime time programming is the industry minutes), NDTV 24x7 (16 minutes), DD News (08 minutes) CNN IBN benchmark in News television for all significant events and issues that (03 minutes) and Aaj Tak (02 minutes). are prominently covered on a particular day. In March, the coverage time for environment saw a drastic change by Six mainstream news channels: AajTak, DD News, ABP News, Zee all of the major news channels. While NDTV 24X7 gave the maximum News, CNN-IBN and NDTV 24X7. coverage on environment & wildlife with 85 minutes, Zee News and Aaj Tak fared better than the rest with 20 and 17 minutes of coverage Recording: The recordings were then previewed and the news respectively. CNN IBN, ABP News and DD News gave the least stories listed under various classifications and categories to generate coverage with 11 minutes, 10 minutes and 09 minutes. quantitative data. Table 2: Primetime coverage of stories and their percentage Logging: The news content on the above mentioned channels were JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH listed and documented in the log sheets. Issues No. of No. of No. of % % % Coding: The stories were classified and separately coded (e.g. politics, Stories Stories Stories business, sports, environmental news etc.). International 117 45.00 67 21.34 131 36.69 Affairs Environment related stories: The theme specific stories were National Politics 48 18.46 134 42.68 122 34.17 separately reviewed and analysed. Environment & 22 8.46 13 4.14 21 5.88 Time frame: The timeline taken for this particular study was January Wildlife - March 2016. Film & 33 12.69 33 10.51 35 9.80 Entertainment Table 1: Coverage of Environment and wildlife Stories Crime 40 15.38 67 21.34 48 13.45 by News Channels between 08-10 pm Total 260 100.00 314 100.00 357 100.00 News Channels (Total time spent in minutes) Source: CMS Media Lab Aaj DD ABP Zee CNN- NDTV Month The month wise analysis of primetime coverage of stories reveals that Tak News News News IBN 24X7 in January, International Affairs got the most media attention (45%). January 2 18 5 15 2 28 Coverage of National Politics was drastically low (18%), followed by Crime stories (16%),Film & Entertainment (13%) and Environment & February 2 8 25 31 3 16 Wildlife (8%). News on National Politics was at its peak in February March 17 9 10 20 11 85 (43%) while March favoured news on International Affairs (37%). Showing an improvement in the month of March were stories on Crime Source: CMS Media Lab (13%), Film & Entertainment (10%) and Environment & Wildlife(06%). Green 22 Voice A Newsletter from CMS ENVIS CENTRE COMPETITIVE

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