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Natural History and it’s unsolved mysteries

অসমৰ অজানা, অদৃশ্য আৰু ৰহস্যাবৃত বনমানুহৰ কথা সৌম্যদ্বীপ দত্ত Homo habilis বনমানুহ আমাৰ ওচৰত এটা পৰিচিত শব্দ। বহুসময়ত আমি আমাৰ অসমত পোৱা ভাৰতৰ একমাত্ৰ এপ প্ৰজাতি ‘হলৌ বান্দৰ’ক বনমানুহ নামেৰে নামকৰণ কৰোঁ। আজি কিন্তু আমি হলৌৰূপী বনমানুহবোৰক লৈ আলোচনা কৰিবলৈ লোৱা নাই। আজি আমাৰ আলোচনাৰ বিষয়বস্তু সেই অজানা, অদৃশ্য আৰু ৰহস্যাবৃত বনমানুহবোৰক লৈ, যিসকলৰ কথা …

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Confessions of a conservationist

Soumyadeep Datta with Late Kamal Narayan Choudhury By- Late Kamal Narayan Choudhury (Presented by Novanita Sharma) ‘Confessions of a conservationist’, is a rare account of honest revelations once shared by Late Kamal Narayan Choudhury, the erudite Zamindar of Rupshi state with young Soumyadeep Datta, the well-known environment activist of India. These sincere confessions came at …

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Axomor Aranya Abhayaranya aru Rashtriya Udiyan

The first Assamese Coffee Table book on eco – tourism and Biodiversity conservation in Assam Novanita Sharma Axomor Aranya Abhayaranya aru Rashtriya Udiyan, the much-awaited coffee table book by renowned environment activist and writer Sri Soumyadeep Datta was inaugurated by Assam Tourism Development Cooperation in a formal function at Guwahati, Assam on 22nd February, 2022. …

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Every day is Biodiversity Day

Novanita Sharma 22nd May is observed every year around the world as, ‘International day for biological diversity’, since 2000, when the UN General Assembly adopted 22nd May as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on Biological Diversity on 22nd May 1992. IDB intends to …

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Natural History and it’s unsolved mysteries

India’s Endangered Monitor Lizards – Rupam Barua India has a rich variety of lizards, a species belonging to the family of reptiles that is believed to have originated on the earth about 300 to 260 million years ago. In fact, the present-day lizards remind us of the gigantic dinosaurs, meaning ‘terrible lizards’ in Greek, that …

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Protecting environment for future generation

Dr. Jagadindra Raychoudhury Introduction:             Environment encompasses all living and non living things occupying natural habitat. All plants, animals, humans and other living organisms live and operate in nature. It also includes Sunlight, atmosphere, land, water, plants, animals, sea life, minerals, and different species that are occurring naturally on earth. Actually, environment plays a pivotal …

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সম্পাদকীয় -এপ্ৰিল

কংকণা দাস ২০২২ ৰ ধৰিত্ৰী দিৱসত পৰম পাৱন চতুৰ্দশ দালাই লামাই এটা বাৰ্তা প্ৰেৰণ কৰিছে। তেখেতৰ এই বাৰ্তাৰ মূল বক্তব্য হ’ল – প্ৰকৃতিত সকলো জীৱৰে সমান অধিকাৰ আছে । অৰ্থাৎ পৃথিৱী কেৱল মানুহৰেই নহয়, সকলো প্ৰাণীৰে পৃথিৱীত সুখেৰে জীয়াই থকাৰ অধিকাৰ আছে। বুদ্ধিমান মানুহ হিচাপে আমাৰ প্ৰাথমিক কামটোৱেই হ’ ল অইন জীৱ সমূহৰ অধিকাৰৰ প্ৰতি …

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Why it is critical for us to protect the habitat and the tiger population of Assam

Ambar Chatterjee (On the basis of the writings of Late Shree Ashim Chatterjee) My father, late Shree Ashim Chatterjee was a renowned environmentalist of the region who worked tirelessly for the protection of the flora and fauna of the region. He was not only an ornithologist of repute but was deeply in love with the …

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