Simrin Sirur
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Tree planting on grasslands can reduce specialist bird populations (opens the original)
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India’s fast disappearing grasslands have long been targeted for afforestation – a practice that encourages tree planting on “degraded” parcels of land. With their vast and open landscapes, savannahs and grasslands are often considered barren land in need of more dense tree cover. But how does converting grassy, arid land to something woody and canopied transform an ecosystem, and the life within it? New research from Maharashtra studies how old-growth savannahs, when planted with trees, changes
Rising temperature could be sparking more Himalayan forest fires (opens the original)
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Forest fires in the Himalayas typically occur between November and June, during the drier months. However, out-of-season and higher elevation fires have sparked concerns about their effective management in a changing climate. A new study from the Western Himalayas provides more clues into the underlying factors driving forest fires in the region. A higher frequency of forest fires was associated with a decline in floristic diversity and the promotion of fire-dominant plant species in Uttarakhand
Arunachal Pradesh: Dam project could destroy habitat of white bellied heron, other endemic species (opens the original)
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The environment minister’s Forest Advisory Committee has granted “in principle” approval to a hydropower project in a region of Arunachal Pradesh that is inhabited by the white bellied heron, a critically endangered bird whose species number was estimated to be less than 60, globally, in 2015. To compensate for the forest loss resulting from the project, the Forest Advisory Committee approved afforestation thousands of kilometres away, in Madhya Pradesh, a decision experts termed futile for the
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