The 5th International Canopy conference from 25th October – 31st october, 2009, in Bangalore, India.
Details
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For those interested…
ATREE is also organizing a painting competition on the theme "Forest canopies" as part of the International canopy conference. Check the link for more details
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References
"Will you walk into my parlour?" Said the spider to the fly. "I've spread a carpet of silk and diamonds! Walk in, and don't be shy! Do come along, for I grow thinner... I've LOVE to have you, ahem, for dinner!" Jokes apart, Funnel Web Spiders also called Wolf Spiders, are named because of the funnel-like web they weave...and the second name is given because they are ferocious predators. They build a flat sheet of nonsticky web with a funnel-shaped retreat to one side or occasionally in the middle, depending on the situation and species. The typical hunting mode is…
It was like a rare alignment of the planets: several factors come together to pull me out of my usual Ranga Shankara ambit for watching a play. I had not been to visit Bangalore International Centre, which opened a while ago in Domlur; Bangalore Little Theatre, as part of their "VP 80" festival, was staging "Credit Titles"; the play, written by Vijay Padaki, whose 80th birthday the festival marks, was based on a story by Vinod Vyasulu, an eminent economist whom I've known for a long time, as our daughters share a cose friendship dating from 1988. And last but…
Bangalore is bigger than New York City and this note below illustrates where we are:
The Central Park in New York City canopy has 26,000 trees — elms, maples, oaks and others — just a fraction of the estimated 2 million trees in all city parks, an additional 600,000 on city streets and 2.5 million on private property — and features the type of obsessive manicuring more suggestive of a well-tended backyard than the Northeastern wilderness. The trees here are maintained with an annual tree care budget of $637,000 by the Central Park Conservancy, which did not return calls for comment