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Training in Assam plantations to reduce human-elephant conflict
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The initiative aimed at supplementing people's livelihoods who have been affected by the burgeoning Human-elephant conflict (HEC) in eastern Assam.
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Assam Forest department conducts GPS training for elephant population esti
Updated : 2 years ago IST
"We have shown GIS-based block maps of different ranges of Goalpara Forest Division. All the Forest Range Officers of Goalpara Forest Division attended the programme. Approximately, 70 forest officials attended the training. GPS hands-on training was provided to about 15 staff of the Goalpar
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Zoological Society of London, Aaranyak facilitate Nepal team's exposure tr
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
A team of protected area managers and community leaders from Nepal visited Kaziranga and Manas Landscape in Assam from February 4 to 9 as part of an exposure trip to experience best practices related to protected area management (species and habitat), community-livelihood work and human-wild
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Assam: Signboards to warn of elephant movements put up in sensitive areas
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Aaranyak, an Assam-based biodiversity conservation group has put up 12 signboards at strategic locations in the Udalguri, Tamulpur, and Baksa districts to ensure the safe passage of wildlife and people across busy roads. The districts are in the Bodoland Territorial Region bordering Bhutan.
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Assam: Solar fence installed in Udalguri to mitigate human-elephant confli
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Aaranyak, in association with the Forest Department, has installed a seven-kilometre-long community-managed single-strand solar-powered fence in Assam's Udalguri district to mitigate human-elephant conflict (HEC) in the region.
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Assam: 900 young minds sensitised to Rhino's importance in ecosystem
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Aaranyaks flagship 'Rhino Goes to School' campaign was organised in the vicinity of the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve here in Assam.
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Guwahati-based NGO introduces 'Prakriti Parichay' environmental education
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
With an aim to inculcate environmental stewardship in students by fostering a sense of responsibility, sustainability, and ecological awareness, Aaranyak has initiated a new vertical of an environmental education program named Prakriti Parichay.
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Guwahati: Aaranyak's school awareness campaign aims to rejuvenate urban wa
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Northeast India's prominent research-based biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak is conducting a school awareness campaign on the need of cleaning, protecting, and conserving the degraded water bodies of the city of Guwahati.
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Assam village women exhibit livelihood products before British Asian Trust
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The exhibition was also a reflection of an encouraging outcome of Aaranyak and British Asian Trusts' initiative to wean away villagers from their dependency on forest-based products in the greater interest of the conservation of wildlife habitats.
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British Asian Trust official inaugurates fence to restrict wild elephant m
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
The fence was formally inaugurated by cutting the ritual red ribbon by Belenda Stuwart Cox of British Asian Trust, UK., in presence of representatives of Forest department of Meghalaya, Auro Saswat of British Asian Trust from Pondicherry, Aaranyaks senior conservation scientist Dr Bibhuti P
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Meghalaya: British Asian Trust official inaugurates solar fence to mitigat
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Belinda Stuwart Cox from the British Asian Trust, UK, officially opened the fence, symbolising a significant step in mitigating human-elephant conflict.
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GenZ expresses their concern over shrinking wildlife habitat
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
To attain a better understanding of forest ecology in the urban landscape, Aaranyak organised an event titled Nature's Wonderland - A journey of curiosity, supported by Wipro Foundation and LEA Associates South Asia Pvt. Ltd. (LASA), focusing on forest biodiversity at the Rani Reserve Forest
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