Drinking water quality in rural India: Issues
Drinking water quality in rural India: Issues(Source: WaterAid, www.wateraid.org)Rural India has more than 700 million people residing in about 1.42 million habitations spread over 15 diverse ecological regions. Meeting the drinking water needs of such a large population can be a daunting task. The non-uniformity in level of awareness, socio-economic development, education, poverty, practices and rituals and water availability add to the complexity of the task. Despite an estimated total of Rs.…
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Author: Hiren B. Soni, Ph.D.
ASIN : B08HMC789R
Print Length: 161 Pages
Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08HMC789R
The fieldwork provides occupational therapy to the fieldworkers, amateurs, professionals and nature lovers, which impart the opportunity to integrate academic knowledge with application skills at progressively higher levels of performance and responsibility. The unique contributions of fieldwork include the opportunity to test firsthand theories and facts learned in academic study and to refine skills through interaction under the supervision of qualified personnel. Fieldwork also provides the naturalist with situations in which to practice interpersonal skills to develop characteristics essential to productive working relationships. Keeping in mind such facts, the present book on ‘Biodiversity and Birds: A Field Records’ is written in articulate manner citing innovative and inventive sightings of some unique species in the forested pockets of Gujarat, India. The book encompasses archetypal records of plants, animals, and birds along with their distinctive occurrence, feeding patterns, conservation, and management of threatened biodiversity, and many more. It also describes some remarkable, noteworthy, and astonishing sightings of species inhabiting in potential niches, habitats, and ecosystems of Western India. Here, the author has shared his incidental as well as subsisting experiences in amazing habitats amidst the nature trails of forested patches and thickets. This book will undoubtedly enrich and enhance the knowledge and awareness of naturalists in the field.
Author: Hiren B. Soni, Ph.D.
ASIN : B08HBMGSGD
Print Length: 116Pages
Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08HBMGSGD
This book focuses on biodiversity as a burgeoning spectrum of life. It highlights need of biodiversity conservation, causes and concerns, exploitation of biodiversity, habitat destruction, interaction of man and technology with biodiversity, policy framework for biodiversity conservation, and wilderness and forests. Moreover, it summarizes a review on birds with special emphasis on geographical and ecological distribution of avifauna of north-western India, birds in ancient times with myths and motifs, an integral association of trees and birds, birds migration, magnetic orientation of birds, and mythological beliefs about birds. The present book also covers exhaustive information on wetlands for tourism, important wetlands of national importance, wise use of wetlands, characteristics of wetlands, prime importance of wetlands as enduring habitats, and threats to viable wetlands. It also emphasize significant wetlands as abode for avifauna, wetlands as bird habitats, significant factors for survival of wetland birds, importance of wetlands for birds’ population, influence of wetlands on waterfowl population, wetland loss and decline of bird diversity, threats to avian habitats, and conservation and management strategies for potential avian ecosystems and legal policy framework for sustainability of waterbirds.
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