Thelivingearth

08/02/2024

We are honored to present our research paper entitled on "Community empowerment through biodiversity conservation by The Living Earth Tours: A Case of social entrepreneurship in Kerala" at the CESTour Conference 2024.

We are grateful for the opportunity provided by the " Birla Institute of Management Technology" and the "CESTour Erasmus+ programme of the European Union" to share insights on sustainable tourism practices in Kerala. The conference promises insightful discussions and forward-thinking solutions.

Our study highlights the transformative impact of social entrepreneurship in the preservation of biodiversity and the empowerment of local communities. It elucidates the grassroot level initiatives and their pivotal role in ensuring conservation based tourism.

Together, let's explore how community empowerment and biodiversity conservation can shape the future of sustainable tourism for all. 🌟


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19/05/2022

When our country is planning to construct the second largest dam on the river Brahmaputra at a cost of 50,000 crores, to ensure water security, a large number of dams are being removed from the rivers in Europe to rectify their past mistake which disturbs the very foundation of ecological stability. Through this, ecological flow can be restored to enhance climate resilience and to restore a wide spectrum of biodiversity from eagles to otters. Dams fragment the river, deteriorate the water quality, alter the landscape along with species composition, affect migratory fish routes, and negatively impact the riverine biodiversity, resulting in coastal erosion and beach disappearance which in turn will affect the nesting grounds for turtles whose ecosystem services to the fishing sector is immeasurable, generate greenhouse gas emission, hinder nutrients distribution, etc.
The mere thought of this is seriously disturbing. Being the second most populated country whose dependency on monsoon is vital for ensuring food and water security, do we have the luxury to restore healthy, free-flowing rivers. Climate change has already impacted the timing and the intensity of rainfall and its repercussion can be witnessed in the form of extreme floods and droughts. At this juncture when climate change along with increasing population and rapid unsustainable development is choking our water and food security, do we have the luxury to stand with the short-term solution, or do we have a better strategy to address this crisis? Assuring food and water security is the basic responsibility of the government but what about the sustainability factor?
Good air to breathe, pure water to drink, and healthy food for consumption is our basic right as well as our privilege. Only a healthy, living earth can assure us that luxury.

The Centre has planned to build India's second-largest dam on the Brahmaputra river at Yingkiong in Arunachal Pradesh.