The government must create a cadre of basic sciences professionals to provide an impetus to students to take up these subjects, APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, has said.
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Posted by divya (#2) 401 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)Tiger population has doubled
Posted by divya (#2) 415 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
The tiger population in the State has more than doubled in the past four years in the Western and Eastern Ghats. A.S. Balanathan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of Forest Force, Tamil Nadu, told The Hindu that the tiger census data released by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on Monday stated that the big cat population in the State, which was declared as 76 during t
World Sparrow Day observed
Posted by divya (#2) 423 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
House Sparrow (passer domesticus) a small, seed-eating bird population is fast shrinking especially in urban areas and are bound to become history. Future generations might get to see them only in pictures. House Sparrow was quite popular and common among the past and present generations who got to see them all around their house and fields.
In Kalakad forests, a project to bring out amphibian ecology
Posted by divya (#2) 423 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
Perhaps for the first time in the country, researchers of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment have initiated a project to monitor the presence of frogs and toads in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats to preserve these endangered species serving as indicators of climate change.
Hornbills find Top Slip ideal for nesting
Posted by divya (#2) 423 days ago (http://www.thehindu.com)
After cleaning up the traditional nests in January, hornbills have, since February, started nesting eggs in tree cavities deep inside the jungles in Karian Shola near Top Slip in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR).