Excessive withdrawal of groundwater leads to reduced water pressure in aquifers resulting in reduced support of the overlying unconsolidated clay or silt.
Four biodiversity rich areas in India have been designated as the hotspots by the Conservation International. Hotspots mandate greater conservation efforts at a local, national and global level.
In an effort to conserve biodiversity many initiatives have been taken at national and international levels, which has culminated into several globally binding protocol and conventions.
Hundreds of forest dwellers’ right to forest land has been rejected without following procedures established by law, showing poor implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006.
A short term response based research was conducted by Geography and You during the 2019 New Delhi World Book Fair on critical thinking amongst the reading public.
