{"id":28909,"date":"2018-10-24T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28909"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T10:05:59","slug":"sustaining-earth-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sustaining-earth-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustaining earth for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/sustaining-earth-for-the-future\/article24106813.ece\">Sustaining earth for the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ecology and environment<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kamal Bawa, President of ATREE, India, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, expressed his views about environment protection in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><u>Need to protect the planet :<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The author empahsised that India is in need of a massive new efforts to monitor all life forms on planet, subject to <strong>increasing damage with unleashing of unprecedented economic and environmental forces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Biologists all over the world have been documenting the <strong>ongoing loss of life forms. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Modern extinction rates are more than a thousand times greater than the rates of the geological past.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In recent decades, populations of <strong>more than 40% of large mammals <\/strong>have declined and insect biomass has <strong>decreased by more than 75%. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Natural habitats all over the world have shrunk. For these losses, our country ranks higher than most.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Protecting life on earth:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To protect life on earth, the <strong>famous American biologist E.O. Wilson <\/strong>has described an ambitious project he calls <strong>\u201cHalf-Earth\u201d. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He calls for formally protecting 50% of the earth\u2019s land surface in order to conserve our rapidly disappearing natural heritage.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Loopholes:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Current efforts to map India\u2019s biodiversity are largely restricted to forestlands, while plans for species monitoring are even more inadequate.<\/li>\n<li>In many of academic institutions, the \u2018Life Sciences\u2019 are still restricted largely to the study of cells and molecules.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Steps to protect biodiversity and ecosystem:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s forest policy calls for <strong>forests to cover almost a third of the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Other natural systems such as <strong>grasslands and wetlands, the area to be protected could amount to almost 40%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Some areas could be fully protected while others might be managed by stakeholders for <strong>sustainable use and enrichment of biodiversity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Digital tools and artificial<\/strong> <strong>intelligence <\/strong>can be utilized to know vulnerability to changes in land use and climate.<\/li>\n<li>Institutions need to place far <strong>more emphasis on the scientific study of life <\/strong>at higher levels.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need a comprehensive inquiry<\/strong> into how society is shaping as well as responding to changes in biodiversity.<\/li>\n<li>Government and private philanthropy need to bring together multiple stakeholders to develop a programme to document map and monitor all life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Need to explore various dimensions<\/strong> of biodiversity and ecosystem services and their critical link to future.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>Recent steps:<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The<strong> Department of Biotechnology and of Science and Technology <\/strong>has recently started programmes and initiatives in the broader areas of science and society.<\/li>\n<li>Several non-governments organizations have strong interdisciplinary programmes in environmental suitability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The India Biodiversity Portal<\/strong> has the ambitious goal of mapping India\u2019s biodiversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustaining earth for the future Ecology and environment Article: Kamal Bawa, President of ATREE, India, and Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, expressed his views about environment protection in India. 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