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Rampant deforestation has brought India face-to-face with serious environmental imbalance, unleashing the havoc of floods, drought, and desertification. This presentation enumerates the ecological importance of forests and establishes their role in the nation’s economy and well being. It describes the pioneering efforts of a few individuals and voluntary organizations at raising forests and plantations for fuel, fodder, and fibre for the local communities.
Outlines the environmental problems that have arisen due to man’s indiscriminate destruction of natural resources. The programme introduces the World Conservation Strategy which has been prepared as a guideline to tackle this global problem of resources destruction. It recommends living-resources conservation for sustainable development.
The most authoritative programme available on the Indian rhino’s scripted and photographed by British Zoologist Andrew Laurie during a three-year research study in Nepal and India. The text is scientifically oriented but full of interesting information which could easily be adapted for general use.
Both species of elephant African as well as Asian are under severe pressure. This programme deals with the threats to the survival of the Asian species, together with a detailed account of its natural history. Prepared by the erstwhile Co-Chairman of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Group, Robert Olivier, who spent three years studying elephants in India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, and Thailand. The text is scientifically oriented but full of interesting information and can easily be adapted for general use.
Modern machinery can now clear over 1,000 tonnes of trees and animals in just two hours. All over the world one of the most ancient ecosystems known to man is disappearing at an alarming rate of over a thousand acres every minute. This programme highlights the problem facing the rainforest in Malaysia and describes some of the more interesting plants and animals that live there. It goes on to point out that the thoughtless exploitation of forest for short-term gain will bring tragedy not only to the forest-dwellers, but to entire mankind
