'Community plays key role in conservation'

THE role of local communities in biodiversity conservation and climate action is neither marginal nor superficial, but integral, said Additional Chief Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forests Supriya Sahu on Monday at a panel discussion titled “Championing the Earth, Saving the Future”, chaired by senior journalist Kaveree Bamzai at the ThinkEdu Conclave.

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Driving home her point to students in the audience, she recalled that while working on the Nilgiri Tahr project, a tribal woman had told her about certain kinds of grassspecific varieties of vegetation. Sahu said her research team la