CLIMATE CARE - NORTHEAST INDIA

UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION REVEALS ASIAN ELEPHANTS ARE FACING HUGE THREAT FROM POACHERS MONOJ GOGOI The elephant population is decreasing drastically due to habitat loss, forests fragmentation, traditional migratory routes blockade due to agricultural or other developmental activities outside protected areas. Therefore man-elephant conflicts are also increasing in many parts of the world. Due to high monetary value of ivories, skins and some other limbs of the body in international markets, the African and Asian elephants became easy prey of the poachers. But trading of ivory was internationally banned in 1989 and it could not help in distracting the poachers eyes from the pachyderm. The Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), classified as endangered according to the International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN), faces huge threat from the poachers, particularly in Myanmar, but it doesn't mean that this species is safe in other South Asian countries. But Myanmar is ...

MONOJ GOGOI FEWS Parts A Flood Early Warning System contains following parts; Transmitter end: Transmitter Box : it contains a circuit with small chips. These chips use for decoding signals. Sensors : Sensors are use for detecting the level of water. As water enters the sensor lead, former pushes the later which leads to generate signals on transmitter box. Sensor pipe: It is long plastic pipe fixed with sensors. It has holes which help during cleaning the interior part of sensor pipe. Antenna : a small antenna needs to fix with the transmitter end to send the signal to receiver part. Battery: a small battery of 6Volt needs to fix with transmitter box. It supply power to the whole transmitter end. Solar panel: a small solar panel needs to fix with transmitter box which supply power to charge the battery. Bamboo pole : one bamboo pole is use to fix whole system along with sensor pipe, transmitter box, solar panel and antenna. Recei...

Dr David Molden, the Director General (DG) of Kathmandu based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and also a world renowned water expert and an environmentalist talked to Monoj Gogoi 1. Dr Molden, you have visited Dihiri in Dhemaji district and Borsala in Lakhimpur district. Both of these two villages are worst flood affected villages of the region. You also interacted interacted with the communities of these two villages. What was the purpose of this visit? Will you share your experiences? Ya, the purpose of the visit is to understand what's happening in the sites. We have two different kinds of projects- one is the Community-Based Flood Early Warning System (CB-FEWS), the second one looks at how best to use remittances from the migrants to build up the livelihoods of the people. So these are important programmes, important ideas from ICIMOD and partners and so that's the purpose of coming here. The second, to try and see how we can...

A tribal woman of Assam, India is at work. She is carrying water for her family from the nearby river. - Monoj Gogoi

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Working with community is amazing!!! At Dihiri, a worst flood and erosion affected village in Dhemaji district of Assam, India, in 2014. Working with community is amazing!!! At Dihiri, a worst flood and erosion affected village in Dhemaji district of Assam, India, in 2014. In the photo the villagers shares their experiences with the river. The are identifying the river and it's Paleo channels and events like road breached, breaches of embankment, government's unscientific structures in undesired locations etc. The people of this village encounters flood and erosion problems each monsoon of the year. The village, Dihiri (which has three settlements excluding adjacent Dihiri Kachary village) is situated on the bank of the Jiadhal river in Dhemaji and inundates the village by the inflated surging water of the river. There is no embankment to protect the village and people live here in scattered stilted houses with light weight materials such as bamboo, corrugate...

A tribal woman is doing household chores at her stilted house in Dhemaji, Assam, India. -Photo by Monoj Gogoi.