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1 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 C.P.R. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE Established in 1989 ✯ Karnataka ✯ Kerala ✯ 1980 - The C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar ✯ Maharashtra Foundation starts nature education for ✯ Orissa teachers and students. ✯ Tamilnadu ✯ 1989 - C.P.R. Environmental Educa- ✯ Puducherry tion Centre (CPREEC) established joint- lyNGO Network by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar CPREEC has an extensive network of about Foundation as a Centre of Excellence 600 NGOs. All educational programmes are of the Ministry of Environment and For- carried out in partnership with select ests. Government of India. NGOs, Universities, Colleges and Schools. Our Mission Publications ✯ To increase knowledge, awareness and ✯ interest among the public about the Activity and information books and environment in all its aspects pamphlets for children ✯ ✯ To develop resource materials for Environmental training guides and kits environmental education and for teachers awareness raising ✯ Researched Publications ✯ To conduct training programmes for a ✯ Colourful and informative posters wide cross-section of people ✯ ECONEWS - A quarterly magazine ✯ To take up environmental projects for ✯ Indian Journal of Environmental demonstration and research Education, a peer-reviewed journal Our Activities Exhibitions ✯ Training and awareness raising CPREEC designs three new exhibitions ev- ✯ Awareness to and through action ery year and has a bank of mobile ✯ Awareness programmes in ecologically exhibitions that travel all over India. fragile areas ✯ Conservation of the ecological heritage Environmental Education ✯ Research and surveys ✯ Generation of resource materials ✯ Green Schools of India (GSI) ✯ Exhibitions ✯ Training programmes for Teachers ✯ Courses, seminars and symposia ✯ Training programmes for School and Facilities College Students ✯ Environmental Law Education ✯ Environmental Laboratory ✯ Library Special Projects ✯ Computer Division ✯ Publications Division ✯ National Green Corps (NGC) ✯ Biomedical Waste Geographical Spread ✯ Biodiversity Conservation CPREEC’s activities extend to Research and Surveys ✯ Andaman & Nicobar Islands ✯ Sustainable Technologies ✯ Andhra Pradesh ✯ Surveys of Natural Resources ✯ Goa ✯ Socio-Economic Surveys ✯ Lab to Field Technology Transfer 2 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 On the inner page of this edition various laws to protect the environment, of Eco News, you will see five websites wildlife and animals. listed: www.cpreecenvis.nic.in is a website www.econewscpreec.com is the about the “Ecological Traditions of India new name for this publication which will and Sacred Sites”. It is a cornucopia of cease to be printed from April 2014. It information. will be an online magazine and there is no charge for subscription. The reason And www.cpreec.org tells you about for this change is because it has become C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre. difficult to get tree-free paper and we do Our educational publications are also not believe in cutting trees to say “Don’t freely available online. Cut A Tree”. However, those who have paid for the subscription of Eco News This issue starts with the importance will continue to receive it till their about the ambient air quality which is a subscription period is over. major concern, particularly during the Diwali season, when bronchitis and We have also started a website asthma cases increase. The habit of www.heritageonline.in. It is an online bursting crackers was introduced by the magazine of little known areas of Indian British and did not exist before. The heritage, both manmade and natural. word “deepavali” – shortened to “divali” - This too is a free website to which I hope means a row of lights. you will subscribe. We already have a large list of interested scholars and And the rest of ECONEWS is about public who have subscribed to this various aspects of biodiversity, a website. diminishing resource today. www.environmentallawsofindia.com Nanditha Krishna lists, in question-answer format, the Editor 3 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 Contents Particulate matters in ambient air: a matter of concern-------------------------------- 5 Kaliveli Wetland---------------------------------------------------------------------------------10 Ethno-botanical Importance of Park Flora ------------------------------------------------20 Veneration of Plants in Tamil Tradition ---------------------------------------------------25 Biodiversity Index-Issues and Challenges -------------------------------------------------27 Rudraksha – Sacred Tree ----------------------------------------------------------------------29 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ECONEWS will become an online magazine from 2014. Therefore No new subscriptions will be accepted. Please Visit us on : www.econewscpreec.com 4 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 Particulate matters in ambient air: a matter of concern U. Thirunavukkarasu Clean air is a fundamental natural seen as soot or smoke. Others are so resource required for living beings. small they can be detected only with an Legal provisions available in the electron microscope. Particulate matter country also ensure that every citizen of less than 10 micro meters in size is of India is breathing in clean respirable greater concern. These particles are air. How far we are inhaling healthy air known as PM10. in India? We have many scientific evidences to support that our ambient Particulate Matter air quality is getting worse day by day. Polluting particulate matter originate from a variety of sources. Diesel trucks, The World Health Organisation’s traditional woodstoves, power plants and (WHO) constituent research body, the industrial activity are a few to mention. International Agency for Research on Particulate matter can be directly emitted Cancer (IARC), announced to the world or formed in the atmosphere. “After thoroughly reviewing the latest available scientific literature, the world’s leading experts convened by the IARC Monographs Programme concluded that there is sufficient evidence that exposure to outdoor air pollution causes lung cancer (Group 1). They also noted a positive association with an increased risk of bladder cancer” - International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on 17 October 2013 that it has classified outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic Comparitive size of PM10 to humans (Group 1). Air pollution Air pollution is a mixture of gases and tiny particles which lowers the quality of the air we breathe. The tiny particles are suspended in the air as aerosols. Particulate matter is the term which describes very small solid, liquid or gaseous particles in the air. Some particles are large or dark enough to be -Source: www.mfe.govt.nz 5 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 Anthropogenic sources of particulate happiness and joy we derive out of matter bursting crackers brings pain and We may trace out the source to many suffering to young children and senior domestic, transport and industrial citizens. The hospitals around the county activities. However, the major report a spurt in the cases of bronchitis, contribution is through the urban life allergy, asthma and wheezing during style that people are leading now-a- the time of this festival. If we consider days. Anthropogenic sources such as ourselves as responsible law abiding burning of fossil fuels in automobiles, citizens, we have no right to spoil the coal combustion in power plants and health of others and endanger their life. industries have multifold effects on the Consider the Central Pollution Control atmosphere when compared with natural Board’s real time ambient air quality sources such as volcanic eruptions, dust found in Chennai before and after storms and forest fires. Diwali. The vehicles we drive, the power that we Real time ambient air quality in Chennai use and the waste that we create and Source: Real time Air Quality Data, Central burn are deleterious to the environment. Pollution Control Board, Ministry of In India, a good example is the festival Environment and Forests, Government of like “Diwali” which contributes in a India. negative way to the ambient air quality. Station: Manali(Tamil Nadu-Chennai), Alandur (Tamil Nadu-Chennai) Ill-conceived festivities and urban life Parameter: style: the prime contributor to air Manali(SO2,CO,NOx,RPM),Alandur pollution (SO2,CO,NOx,RSPM) The festival of lights no more brings AvgPeriod: 24 Hours brightness to our life; instead it brings Date - From : 31/10/2013 To: gloom and darkness to the health of 05/11/2013 human beings and animals. The Comparision of Manali (SO2,CO,NOx,RPM),Alandur(SO2,CO,NOx,RSPM),Chennai Date Manali(Tamil Nadu-Chennai) Alandur (Tamil Nadu-Chennai) SO2 CO NOx RPM SO2 CO NOx RSPM 31/10/2013 22.92 0.00 12.80 - 17.32 1.04 18.13 94.19 01/11/2013 6.29 0.00 0.00 - 2.71 0.96 15.49 73.88 02/11/2013 23.19 0.00 395.16 - 18.33 0.00 37.18 114.02 03/11/2013 34.13 0.00 57.83 - 24.45 0.00 37.56 51.84 04/11/2013 2.75 0.00 46.63 - 20.35 0.00 25.56 54.49 05/11/2013 1.76 0.00 35.07 - 16.31 0.00 28.11 77.72 6 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 The Central Pollution Control Board in India has a real time ambient air quality monitoring system established in important cities of India. The Government of India has also notified the National Ambient Air Quality Standards through a Gazatte Notification on 18th November 2009. NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS Source: National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Central Pollution Control Board, New Delhi, published in Gazette of India, 19 Nov, 2009. 7 Eco News, Vol. 19, No. 3 October - December 2013 Urban air quality and life style and crossings in the urban roads of In most of the urban areas, the ambient India. air quality standards are always worse when compared with the standards Growing Garbage prescribed for the residential areas and A World Watch study in 1999 predicted the situation gets worse during festivities. that by 2025, the amount of solid waste The twelve major festivals of India drew a generated in the world would double, i.e., common ecological and cultural ground from 1.3 billion tones to 2.6 billion tones.
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