ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE
Our Objectives
The objectives are:
- To promote, organize, encourage study and enhance knowledge, understanding and appreciation of nature, and the principle and practice of conservation of natural resources among the common mass.
- To promote and maintain liaison between various disciplines of science and technology related to environment.
- To establish and maintain contacts with various departments of State Government and Union Government, national, regional and international organizations or any other agency so far as these contacts are beneficial to the Society’s objectives.
- To advise the State Government, Union Government or any other organization on matters related to environment, in the interest of public at large.
- To hold, sponsor, support or collaborate conferences, seminars, symposia, meetings, training programmes, demonstrations, mass mobilization campaigns, popular lectures, cultural programmes, etc to promote education and awareness on issues related to development of natural resources and conservation of environment.
- To publish books, proceedings, journals, newsletters or bulletins and such other, as may be found desirable to promote public interest and scientific temper in matters related to natural resources and environment.
- It shall adopt any other transparent means, strategy or principle that might be advantageous and beneficial to the Society’s objectives.
- To frame co-curricular and organize courses in environmental sciences at all levels of education.
- To provide consultancy services for any project related to natural resources and environment.
- To promote research on science, technology and environment for sustainable development.
- To do all such things, which may be necessary, incidental or constructive, to the attainment of all or any specific objectives of the Society?
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The benefits of the Society are open to all irrespective of caste, creed, community, religion, etc, and it shall work regardless of race, religion, culture or political belief and activities of the Society are carried out within the jurisdiction of India.
FACTS
Forests
- Around 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihood, including 70 million indigenous people.
- Forests are home to more than 80 per cent of all terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects.
- Between 2010 and 2015, the world lost 3.3 million hectares of forest areas. Poor rural women depend on common pool resources and are especially affected by their depletion.
Desertification
- 2.6 billion people depend directly on agriculture, but 52 per cent of the land used for agriculture is moderately or severely affected by soil degradation.
- Arable land loss is estimated at 30 to 35 times the historical rate
- Due to drought and desertification, 12 million hectares are lost each year (23 hectares per minute). Within one year, 20 million tons of grain could have been grown.
- 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally.
Biodiversity
- Illicit poaching and trafficking of wildlife continues to thwart conservation efforts, with nearly 7,000 species of animals and plants reported in illegal trade involving 120 countries.
- Of the 8,300 animal breeds known, 8 per cent are extinct and 22 per cent are at risk of extinction.
- Of the over 80,000 tree species, less than 1 per cent have been studied for potential use.
- Fish provide 20 per cent of animal protein to about 3 billion people. Only ten species provide about 30 per cent of marine capture fisheries and ten species provide about 50 per cent of aquaculture production.
- Over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants. Only three cereal crops – rice, maize and wheat – provide 60 per cent of energy intake.
- As many as 80 per cent of people living in rural areas in developing countries rely on traditional plant-‐based medicines for basic healthcare.
- Micro-organisms and invertebrates are key to ecosystem services, but their contributions are still poorly known and rarely acknowledged.