Conservation efforts for Red Panda

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists Red Panda is a vulnerable species. Here is the IUCN entry for the Red Panda.
Red Panda is also the state animal of Sikkim and its population is dwindling in captive and in wild. The Sikkim Himalayan Zoological Park in Gangtok has embarked on a breeding and [...]

Angora shawls make a comeback

Angora shawls are made from the wool obtained from the German breed rabbit named  ‘Angora.’  Art of making Angora shawls is traditional in Sikkim.
In order to revive the lost interest of customers, the State Handloom Department in Sikkim is focusing on incorporating new motifs and designs.  Traditionally the designs were limited to variations in [...]

Say it with flowers in Sikkim

As I write this post, I am listening to “Rajnigandha, phool tumhare mehke yoonhi jeevan mein…” Always love those good old songs! Not to mention the warm feeling of receiving flowers!  This is a nice segway to today’s posting on floriculture in Sikkim. 
“Floriculture is picking up in Sikkim both in the rural and the urban [...]

Sikkim achieves total sanitation

Sikkim has become the first state in the country to have achieved complete sanitation under the government’s Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). ”Sikkim is the first state to achieve complete sanitation and under TSC as 60 per cent of rural households have gone for total sanitation,” Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh told reporters here today. [...]

Bird flu confirmed in Sikkim

Confirming outbreak of bird flu in Sikkim, the government today said culling of birds in the affected area will begin as soon as the Centra team arrives .Birdflu was confirmed by High Security Diseases Laboratory in Bhopal after samples of 30 birds, which died at Ravangla in South district was sent to it, animal husbandry and [...]

Bid to save endangered red panda from extinction in Sikkim

Sikkim is making efforts to save endangered Red Panda from extinction.  The Himalayan Zoological Park (HZP), Gangtok in collaboration with the State Forest Department has initiated a programme for the conservation and breeding of Red Panda at a natural enclosure in the park.  “Red panda is an endangered species. We are in an initial stage [...]

Sikkim lays stress on growth of cash crops

Cash crop development has assumed desired heights in the state of Sikkim, guaranteeing sustainable livelihood, ensuring employment generation and generating income for the rural masses in the state, claims the state Horticulture and Cash Crops Development department.  The department of Horticulture encouraged farmers to grow off-season vegetables. The programmes of the department in the critical [...]

NE States able to sustain environmental stress

The North Eastern States have been able to sustain population pressure, environmental stress with Manipur bagging the first position among others regions surveyed by Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) Chennai chapter across 28 States.  Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram bagged the next top slots respectively,” ESI Director of IFMR Centre for Development Finance Jessica Wallack said [...]