Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Thursday urged all Himalayan and Northeastern states to work together to tackle the growing impacts of climate change.
"So, we can appoint say three or four of these institutions which will nominate their representatives and we can ask them to carry out a complete and comprehensive study on carrying capacity within the Himalayan region," the bench said.
"As part of the wildlife conservation strategy, in the year 2002, it was decided that an area around each protected area requires to be notified as Eco-Sensitive Zone for creating a buffer as further protection around Protected Areas (PAs)," he added.
Ranikhet (Uttarakhand) [India], August 5 (ANI): A Himalayan spice garden, a first of its kind in the entire Indian Himalayan Region and country, was inaugurated by noted historian Shekhar Pathak in Uttarakhand's Ranikhet on Friday.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 5 (ANI): The research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department on Saturday informed that it conserves 73 rare, threatened and endangered plant species as well as 54 plant species that are endemic to Uttarakhand and Indian Himalayan Region.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 27 (ANI): As many as 11 Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) state leaders are set to meet Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others to discuss and deliberate upon the issues in the Himalayan region.