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IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENT RELATED NEWS

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INSTITUTION ESTABLISHMENT AND

OBJECTIVES

HIGHLIGHTS

1 Wildlife Trust of India

formed in November

1998 in response to the

rapidly deteriorating

condition of wildlife in

India

WTI is a registered

charity in India (under

Section 12A of the

Income Tax Act, 1961)

It is a non-profit

organization

HQ – Noida

Objective – to conserve

wildlife and its habitat

and to work for the

welfare of individual wild

animals.

WTI currently focuses its

resources on six priority

landscapes – northeast

India, western Himalayas,

terai, southern Ghats

system, central India and

marine.

Its Depth

Projects holistically

address multiple

conservation hurdles

specific to an area through

a multi-pronged approach.

Its Breadth

Projects address specific

conservation issues that

may not be limited in time

and space in the country,

such as the training of

frontline forest staff and

preventing wild animal

deaths due to train hits.

2 Wildlife Institute of

India

Founded in 1982

autonomous institution

under the Ministry of

Environment Forest and

Climate change

HQ – Dehradun

Objective – to nurture the

development of wildlife

science and promote its a

pplication in

conservation, in

consonants with our

cultural and socio-

economic milieu

WII carries out wildlife

research in areas of study

like Biodiversity, Endang

ered Species, Wildlife

Policy, Wildlife

Management, Wildlife

Forensics, Spatial

Modeling,

Ecodevelopment, Habitat

Ecology and Climate

Change.

WII has a research

facility which includes

Forensics, Remote

Sensing and GIS,

Laboratory, Herbarium,

and an Electronic Library.

3 Agency for Non-

conventional Energy

and Rural Technology

Established in 1986

under Societies Act by the

Government of Kerala,

now functioning under

conduct studies, demonstr

ate, implement and

support implementations

of schemes and project in


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(ANERT)

power dept.

HQ -

Thiruvananthapuram,

Kerala

Objective - To gather and

disseminate useful

knowledge in various

fields of Non-

Conventional Energy,

Energy Conservation, and

Rural Technology

these fields and thereby

deal with the problems

arising out of the rapid

depletion of conventional

energy sources

to update the technologies

used in rural areas as well

as introduce appropriate

new technologies with an

aim to reduce drudgery,

increase production and

improve quality of life.

4 Conserve

established in 1998, when

the Delhi government

launched the Bhagidari

campaign, asking its

citizens to participate in

civic initiatives, the

conservationist, Anita

Ahuja and her IIT-alumna

husband Shalabh rose to

the challenge and

launched Conserve.

It is an NGO.

Objective – to counter the

issue of plastic

bags.(Recycling)

Conserve India bags are

being sold around the

world and proceeds of this

work are put to good use.

Firstly, better wages for

Conserve employees –

a ragpicker collecting

bags for Conserve earns

on average three times

more selling to us than

they would earn

elsewhere.

Secondly, training

opportunities for all staff

at Conserve India so that

they can get more skilled

jobs either within the

organisation or elsewhere.

Thirdly, a school in the

slum where many of

the ragpickers we work

with live. Finally, loans

for Conserve workers to

develop their own start-up

businesses, and most

recently a health clinic for

the entire workforce.

5 Centre for Science and

Environment (CSE)

Established in 1980

HQ- Delhi

Objective – to develop

into an excellent resource

centre with information

— printed and visual —

on sustainable

development issues,

which is possibly the best

in India.

It is a not-for-profit

public interest research

and advocacy

organisation.

It works as a think tank on

environment-development

issues in India, poor

planning, climate shifts

devastating India‘s

Sundarbans and


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advocates for policy

changes and better

implementation of the

already existing policies.

CSE uses knowledge-

based activism to

create awareness about

problems and propose sus

tainable solutions.

6 World Sustainable

Development Summit

Established in 2016

The Energy and

Resources Institute‘s

(TERI) annual event, the

Delhi Sustainable

Development Summit

(DSDS), has evolved to

the World Sustainable

Development Summit

(WSDS).

HQ – Delhi

Objective – to provide

long-term solutions for

the benefit of the global

community by assembling

the

various stakeholders on a

single platform (in the

area of environment

conservation).

The WSDS brings

together Nobel laureates,

political leaders, decision-

makers from bilateral and

multilateral institutions,

business leaders, high-

level functionaries from

the diplomatic corps,

scientists and researchers,

media personnel, and

members of civil society;

to deliberate on issues

related to sustainable

development.

WSDS 2016 was held in

New Delhi from October

5-8, 2016 under the broad

rubric of ‗Beyond 2015:

People, Planet &

Progress‘, and it broadly

focused on actions, on

accelerated

implementation of SDGs

and NDCs.

7 Environmentalist

Foundation of India

Established in 2007 and

registered in 2011

HQ - Chennai,

Hyderabad, Puducherry

and Coimbatore

Objective -

Wildlife conservation and

habitat restoration

The organisation is

known for its work

in cleaning and scientific

restoration of lakes in

India for biodiversity.

EFI is also involved in

the setting up of herbal

biodiversity gardens at

schools and special

interest zones.

The idea behind the

herbal gardens are to

increase people‘s interest

in green cover and live

healthy with native Indian

herbs.


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EFI‘s ―Clean for Olive

Green‖ is a beach clean

up project that is

organised every year in

the months of December

to May to keep Chennai‘s

beaches clean for the

nesting Sea Turtle

Mothers.

8 National Green Corps

programme of the

Ministry of Environment

and Forests of

Government of India.

Objective - NGC

Programme aims at

building cadres of young

children working towards

environmental

conservation and

sustainable development.

to impart knowledge to

school children, through

hands on experience,

about their immediate

environment, interactions

within it and the problems

therein

to inculcate proper

attitudes towards the

environment and its

conservation through

community interactions

to sensitize children to

issues related to

environment and

development through field

visits and demonstrations

to motivate and stimulate

young minds by involving

them in action projects

related to environmental

conservation.

9 Bombay Natural

History Society

founded on 15 September

1883.

HQ – Mumbai

It is an NGO.

Objective -

Environment Conservatio

n and

biodiversity research

It supports many research

efforts through grants and

publishes the Journal of

the Bombay Natural

History Society.

BNHS is the partner of

BirdLife International in

India.

It has been designated as

a ‗Scientific and

Industrial Research

Organisation‘ by the

Department of Science

and Technology.

It sponsors studies

in Indian wildlife and


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conservation, and

publishes a four-monthly

journal, Journal of the

Bombay Natural History

Society (JBNHS), as well

as a quarterly

magazine, Hornbill.

Human activities are

degrading the global

environment at a pace that

could endanger the

―ecological foundations of

society‖ and human

health.

10 The Energy and

Resource Institute

(TERI)

Established in 1974, it

was formerly known as

Tata Energy and Resource

Institute.

HQ – Delhi

Objective - To work

towards

global sustainable

development, creating

innovative solutions for

environment

conservation.

The scope of the

organisation‘s activities

includes climate change,

energy efficiency,

renewable energy,

biotechnology, and social

transformation.

World Sustainable

Development Summit

(WSDS) is an annual

summit which facilitates

the exchange of

knowledge on diverse

aspects of global


LaBL (Lighting a Billion

Lives) is an initiative to

provide clean lighting

access to bottom of the

pyramid communities.

Green Olympiad

conducted in association

with MoEF, it is an

international environment

examination that is

annually organized for

middle and high-school

students

11 Vindhyan Ecology and

Natural History

Foundation

Founded in 2012

a registered non-profit

organization

HQ – Mirzapur, UP

Objective - To protect and

conserve the nature,

Vindhya Bachao Abhiyan

is the flagship program of

VENHF which works

towards environmental

equity and

bringing ecological

justice through research-


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natural

resources and rights of the

nature dependent

communities in the

ecologically fragile

landscape of Vindhya

Range in India.

It tries to achieve its

objective through

Research, Advocacy,

Education, Community

mobilization, Litigation.

based

environmental litigation,

strengthening grass-root

environmental

movements, supporting

institution of local

governance and protecting

the rights of nature

dependent indigenous

communities.

12 Ashoka Trust for

Research in Ecology

and the Environment

(ATREE)

Established by Kamaljit

S. Bawa

HQ – Bangalore

Objective - Its mission is

to generate rigorous

interdisciplinary

knowledge for achieving

environmental

conservation and

sustainable

development in a socially

just manner, to enable the

use of this knowledge by

policy makers and

society, and to train the

next generation of

scholars and leaders.

It is a research institution

in the areas of

biodiversity conservation

and sustainable

development.

t focuses on applied

science through research,

education and action that

influence policy and

practice on conservation

of nature, management of

natural resources, and


It envisions a society

committed to

environmental

conservation and

sustainable and socially

just development, in

which ATREE plays the

role of a

model knowledge-

generating organization

for catalyzing the

transition to such a

society.


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