Category Archives: BIODIVERSITY

Leaders vow to protect Coral Triangle and its people

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Manado, Indonesia — Leaders of six Coral Triangle countries promised to take action to safeguard the world’s richest marine resource and some 100 million people depending on it. The announcement followed a recent WWF report which found that without action … Continue reading →

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Half of Coral Reefs Could Be Destroyed

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Nearly half of the world’s coral reefs may be lost in the next 40 years unless urgent measures are taken to protect them against the threat of climate change, according to a new report released  by the World Conservation Union. … Continue reading →

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Soft tissue preserved in 80-million-year-old dino fossil

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Molecular paleontologist Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and colleagues presented evidence  in Science that they had successfully recovered and identified collagen, a type of protein, from the femur of an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur, a duck-billed dinosaur. read … Continue reading →

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Toda People of India

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Prior to the late eighteenth century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Badaga, Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose … Continue reading →

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