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What is Ecotourism?
What is Ecotourism? “Tourism involving travel to areas of natural or ecological interest, typically under the guidance of a naturalist, for the purpose of observing wildlife and learning about the environment and at the same time focus on wildlife and promotion of understanding and conservation of the environment.” This is a conscientious form of tourism…
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Karnataka Eco Tourism
The increase in tourism in the twentieth century set the place for the origin of ecotourism mainly because of two motives. Firstly, more tourism has cut down seriously on the natural environment causing extensive defeat to natural resources and secondly, ecotourism or the nature-based tourism is commonly accepted, presenting a clean and more steady, sustainable…
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Connecting People To Nature
From your backyard to your favorite national park, nature is closer than you think. It’s time to get out and enjoy it. ‘Connecting People to Nature’, the theme for World Environment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appreciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to…
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Protect Our Biodiversity, Protect Our Culture
May 22 is observed as International Day for Biodiversity but as each year passes and another Biodiversity day is celebrated, more plants, animals and aquatic life continue to disappear for good from the face of the earth. It is true that new animal species have been recently discovered in the state, but some plants, animal…
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Learning from the past: A new protocol for agricultural education and research in India
Agriculture in our country today is in a profound crisis. Wherever we look we see the evidence of this: static or falling crop yields, crop failures due to too little or too much rainfall, rampant diseases and pests and wild animal attacks, loss of crop and domestic animal biodiversity, soil erosion, deforestation, falling water tables,…
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More You Travel More You Learn
Why Travel | The more you travel, the more you learn. It does not matter what you do for leaving or how much money you make – make it a point to venture out. The memories that we make on our trips give us fuel to go on in life. Travel Style | Our travel…
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Focus on These Four Factors to Make the Most of a Vacation
Ask five people what their idea of an awesome vacation is and you might get five different answers. Everyone understands the main point, which is to recharge and recover from the stresses of everyday life, but what you focus on when you take vacation could impact its overall restorative effect. There are four major factors,…
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Rules To Follow When On A Trek
It’s the end of rainy season! The season of Guava, beaches and other outings. But most of all, this is the ideal period for undertaking any trekking expedition, primarily because the weather can be relied upon. If done right, there cannot be anything more exhilarating and rejuvenating than a trek, but just like most other…
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Adventure Dads
Cycling, running, scuba diving, travel – New Age dads are bonding with their kids through adventure and a spirit of sportsmanship Did your outdoor pursuits end after the kids arrived? By eliminating activity from your life after fatherhood, you are actually removing the factor most likely to spur you children to grow into healthy adults:…
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Country Roads to Village Vacation
Find life in its most unfiltered form at a village vacation this year We are eating ancient grains, wearing indigenous clothing, cooking from grandma’s recipes and gradually putting life in slow gear. There is a universal yearning to go back to the roots, to live a less complicated and de-cluttered life. While some people have…