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  As the world is moving towards replenishment and renewal, lot of countries are working to reverse environmental damage  Courtesy: The Scottish Rewilding Alliance Facebook Page  Scotland is one such nation that is working towards 're-wilding' itself. The country acknowledges how it has lost over two thirds of its forest cover over half a century. It is therefore no surprise that a round 40 per cent of plant species are threatened with extinction and scientists say we may be losing them faster than they can find, name and study them.  So the country is moving towards what they call as conservative growth or rewilding, where you give a habitat time to recoup and recuperate, replenishing itself through its initial mix. Some believe, bringing back the wolves and lynx is an excellent way to get the habitat going again. This is being supplemented with t ree planting schemes, active conservation efforts, and high tech carbon capture solutions all look to help tackle b...

  As the pandemic has found so many ways of humanity to thrive and survive, migrant workers are also finding great dignity in labour and purpose in work for themselves One of the ponds that has been resurrected through the effort of the migrant population and the NGO CatcH20 Group in Goa Migrant population has been worst effected by the pandemic led lock-downs. It has sucked into their livelihood and threatened their very existence. Many countries have been held up for human rights violation, when it came to helping and taking care of their migrant labour. The ugly truth of their lives came out in the open. India was a sad case of neglect. Actually, there were just too many to look after and with lack of proper documentation of the migrant workers nationwide, it became a difficult task to consolidate them and help them in a systematic way.  But the Goan administration under the aegis of an able CM Pramod Sawant, there have been many good moves made to protect the rights of the...