PaleoIndia Portal

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The Union Minister of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change recently launched the PaleoIndia Portal.

About PaleoIndia Portal

• It is a digital initiative developed jointly by the  Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) and the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Chennai, using dynamic geological maps provided by the GSI. 
• The digital platform documents fossil fauna across all 28 states and 8 Union Territories. 
• It currently hosts information on more than 5,000 fossil specimens spanning mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes, amphibians, molluscs, arthropods, foraminifera, echinoderms, and ichnofossils. 
• It features a real-time data upload system to enable field-based and citizen science contributions for safeguarding India’s paleontological heritage.

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Key Facts about National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management

• It was established by the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in 2011 as an autonomous institution to support the protection, conservation, rehabilitation, management, and policy advice of the coast. 
• Headquarters: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Aims and Objectives:
  • Strive for being a world-class knowledge institution related to coastal zones, environment, resources, and processes.
  • To promote integrated and sustainable management of the coastal and marine areas in India for the benefit and well-being of the traditional coastal and island communities.
  • Advise the Union and State Governments and other associated stakeholder(s) on policy and scientific matters related to Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).
• Its work includes coastal vulnerability assessments, coastal environmental impact studies, mapping of Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs), and creating Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) plans. 
• The Six Research Divisions of the NCSCM are: 
  • Geospatial Sciences, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 
  • Integrated Social Sciences & Economics, 
  • Coastal environmental impact assessment, 
  • Conservation of Coastal & Marine Resources, 
  • Knowledge, Governance and Policy, 
  • Futuristic Research and Integrated Island Management Unit.

News: TI