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Students, locals clean dirty Kiruthamal river

Edit The Times of India 21 Oct 2016
MADURAI ... The drive was supported by the department of science of technology, Government of India. The team had cleaned a segment of Nilayur canal and removed Prosopis juliflora trees, plastic waste and construction debris on October 18 ... RELATED. From around the web....

Joining the dots

Edit The Hindu 15 Oct 2016
Dalby draws concentric circles, linking them with lines to depict a journey from one place to another ... I use the symbols of the bush tucker (the native flora and fauna used by the Aborigines for culinary and medicinal purposes) to illustrate sangari, the long needle-like fruit from Khejari (Prosopis cineraria) trees, kair (Capparis decidua), and kumatiya (Acacia Senegal), which are cooked into delicious dishes in western Rajasthan....

Tamil Nadu youth ends life seeking ban on plastics

Edit The Times of India 14 Oct 2016
TRICHY. Whenever this 23-year-old youth said he would give anything to save the environment, nobody ever thought he would sacrifice his life for the cause. That's what K Jawahar did when he jumped into a canal in Thanjavur on Monday ... Nature had always been close to Jawahar's heart right from childhood ... He used to campaign for eradication of karuvelam trees (Prosopis Juliflora), which were harmful ... Jawahar went missing on Monday morning....

Demanding ban on plastics, youth ends life

Edit The Times of India 13 Oct 2016
TRICHY. Whenever this 23-year-old youth said he would give anything to save the environment, nobody ever thought he would sacrifice his life for the cause. That's what K Jawahar did when he jumped into a canal in Thanjavur on Monday ... Nature had always been close to Jawahar's heart right from childhood ... He used to campaign for eradication of karuvelam trees (Prosopis Juliflora), which were harmful ... Jawahar went missing on Monday morning....

4.15Lakh litres of ghee floods Rupal

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
AHMEDABAD. Rupal village in Gandhinagar district may not be a land of milk and honey , but for one night, on Sunday , the last night of Navratri, it turned into a land of ghee ... This is the custom used to thank her for fulfilling wishes ... This is a pyramid-like structure especially made from wood of Prosopis cineraria, also called the Sami Vriksha by locals. The `palli' was taken out early on Monday morning in a procession ... RELATED....

Goa’s Dussehra celebrates Shiva’s marriage with Shakti

Edit The Times of India 11 Oct 2016
Keri ... In Goa this festival marks the union of Shiva with Shakti ... This is known as Shiva-lagna ... It is believed that the god of wealth Kuber had poured gold coins on the trees of shami (Prosopis cineraria) and apto as the king Raghu had decided to invade the kingdom of god to procure wealth for fulfilling his vows of fourteen crores gold coins to the sage Kautsa and hence the tradition of distributing leaves of these trees began ... RELATED....

Perini to be official dance of Telangana

Edit Deccan Chronicle 05 Oct 2016
HYDERABAD ... Vice-chancellor Prof. S.V ... “Perini Shivathanda-vam is performed only by men ... It may be mentioned that the Telangana government had earlier announced Thangedu (Cassia Auriculata), Jammi (Prosopis Cineraria), Pala Pitta (Indian Roller) as the official flower, tree and bird of the state respectively ... ....

Australian first mesquite bioherbicide trial underway at Broken Hill (Western Local Land Services)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. Western Local Land Services). 27 September 2016. In an Australian first, an innovative trial has begun at Broken Hill testing the use of fungal isolates as potential bioherbicides, to treat mesquite (Prosopis spp), one of the western regions most aggressive weeds. This is the first time a fungal based biological control has been trialled on mesquite within Australia ... 08 8082 5204. or email.mitchell.plumbe@lls.nsw.gov.au ... (noodl....

Australian first mesquite bioherbicide trial underway at Broken Hill (NSW Local Land Services)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. NSW Local Land Services). 27 September 2016. In an Australian first, an innovative trial has begun at Broken Hill testing the use of fungal isolates as potential bioherbicides, to treat mesquite (Prosopis spp), one of the western regions most aggressive weeds. This is the first time a fungal based biological control has been trialled on mesquite within Australia ... 08 8082 5204. or email.mitchell.plumbe@lls.nsw.gov.au. Media contact....

New lease of life for waterbody

Edit The Hindu 26 Sep 2016
Members of the ‘Rotary Club of Golden Ramnad’ have given a new lease of life to a century-old oorani (waterbody), which presented a pathetic picture all these years after encroachments and wild growth of seema karuvai (prosopis juliflora) trees on the outskirts of the town ... M Athma Karthik, Project Coordinator, said ... They have created pathways and planted medicinal plants for the benefit of walkers ... Karthik said ... A ... N ... ....

Youngsters volunteer to clean up defunct tank

Edit The Hindu 20 Sep 2016
Youngsters living in and around a pond on Mariyamman Koil Street near Manalurpettai Road here have started cleaning it up voluntarily ... The stone steps leading to water from the bank is mud covered. The tank is now surrounded by invasive prosopis juliflora plants ... ....

Taking a ride on the wild side

Edit The Hindu 02 Sep 2016
I inhaled the clear and cold desert air and couldn’t help marvel at the amazing convenience of modern travel. At 5 a.m., I was in humid Chennai, and here I was, five hours later, in the middle of Kutch ... The usual culprits — creeping human habitations, salt production, temple tourism and the Prosopis juliflora, an invasive alien weed that dominates much of the landscape — are wiping out endemic species ... Keywords....

Restoration of Adyar creek: seconnd phase to be over by month-end

Edit The Times of India 29 Aug 2016
Chennai. The Adyar creek and estuary, spread over 300 acres is clean now with the restoration work scheduled to end this month ... But rains and the subsequent floods last year delayed the work ... In order to overcome this, special metal floats were brought from Mumbai ... This part of the estuary has nine islands which were taken over by prosopis, an invasive weed species, which had spread up to the mud flats ... RELATED....
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