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NATIONAL IAS ACADEMY SUPER40 (BOOKLET NUMBER – 21) CONTACT: 9632334466
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PRESENTS
SUPER 40 SERIES TOP 40 PDFS FOR UPSC PRELIMINARY EXAM 2019
BOOKLET NUMBER - 21
IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENT
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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
sustainable development.
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
sustainable development.
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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