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Insects: Mini architects of the forests

Insects: Mini architects of the forests

Felix Francis and Pratha Sah

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the earth. They play critical roles in the biology and ecology of forest ecosystems. These roles include pollinating flowering plants, serving as critical components of the forest food web, and decomposing woody debris and leaf litter.
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Lost Population of Indian Vultures

Lost Population of Indian Vultures

Pratha Sah and Felix Francis

India has nine species of vultures in the wild including the Oriental White-backed Vulture (Gyps bengalensis), Long-Billed Vulture (Gyps indicus), Slender-Billed Vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus), Red-Headed Vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), Indian Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus), Himalayan Griffon (Gyps himalayensis), Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus), and Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus). Among them, the white-backed, long-billed, and slender-billed vultures are recognized by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Conservation Union, as critically endangered.

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Bt -The final answer to world hunger

Bt -The final answer to world hunger?

Felix Francis and Pratha Sah

Eighteen percentage of the land mass in our planet is used for agriculture. Considering our population growth, it becomes imperative that our agriculture production increases many fold to feed the world. Human population will reach nine billion by 2040. The diets of consumers are increasingly shifting from plant-based proteins  to animal proteins, a movement that necessitates greater amount of crop-based feeds. Increasing the cropped area to compensate the bigger demand is not possible. 70,000 square kilometers of agricultural land (a little more than the size of Germany), are lost every year to the growth of cities and other non-agricultural uses.

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