Good Morning all,
Well, the Cheju Do trip is going smoothly. Today was rainy, so we visited the Teddy Bear Museum. Then, we checked out a local waterfall, walked a famous bridge, took pictures of a set of windmills, and hit the beach for a little while. Tomorrow, we'll visit a couple museums and the Cheju Stone Folk Village.
Anyway, let me briefly introduce to you some of the stories I found today. First is the story of a woman who clung with all her might, for hours, to a tree before being rescued. If she had let go, she would have fallen a minimum of 10 meters, and could have continued falling for another 150 meters. I think it's amazing and wonderful that passersby heard her calling for help, and were able to get aid to her.
The second story I'd like to introduce is about Guam. One of the Mariana Islands, Guam is located in the southern pacific, and has been inhabited for at least 1,500 years. Archaeologists discovered recently, however, that infact Guam has been inhabited for at least 1,000 more years that previously thought. Because of a renovation, archaeologists were blessed with the find of the human remains which allowed them this new information. Yea!
The third story I want to share is about an ancient chinese water irrigation system. This system is partly made of bamboo, has stood since 256 BC, and withstood the Szechuan Quake with only one small crack. Other, more modern dams have sustained more damage, and are under 24 hour surveillance, because they may break soon. There are a lot of things we can learn from past architectures, if we study them carefully. This Chinese irrigation system appears to be one from which we could gain much valuable information.
Well, I hope you enjoy today's good news! I'll be back tomorrow to share some more! :)
Today's Top 5:
1. Dead Tree on Bluff Saves Tourist's Life (press.co.nz news)
2. Man Survives Collision with Train (Shreveport Times)
3. Missing Divers Rescued After a Night Off Great Barrier Reef (Sky News)
4. Melinda Gates Urges Girls to Find a Way to Save the World (Seattle Times)
5. Archeologists Find Human Remains about 2,500 Years Old on Guam (Guam Daily News)
Honorable Mentions:
1. New DNA Evidence Overturns Population Migration Theory in Island Southeast Asia (Physorg.com)
2. Failed HIV Drug Gets Second Chance with Addition of Gold Nanoparticles (Eurekalert.org)
3. Ancient Chinese Irrigation System stands Test of Time...and Quake (Channel News Asia)
4. Locksmith in Longview Cracks Safe that Baffled Feds, MIT (Seattle Times)
5. Five Sanctuaries in India to get Tiger Reserve status (The Times of India
Today's Top 5:
1. Dead Tree on Bluff Saves Tourist's Life
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4558708a6009.html
By David Williams in Queenstown - Canterbury
Saturday, 24 May 2008
A tourist clinging desperately to a tree over a 10m drop on a mountain above Queenstown pleaded with her rescuer to hurry as he abseiled towards her.
Patricia Flores, 29, of Uruguay, told The Press she feared she was going to die on Thursday night after getting lost on the Ben Lomond Track, near the Skyline Gondola.
"I was very tired ... I just said `Please, I can't keep holding on any more'. I was losing strength."
After slipping on the steep terrain, she had grabbed a dead tree on a rock to stop her falling off a bluff.
Last night, she said she was near the edge but could not see the severity of the drop.
Flores, who leaves New Zealand on Monday, said in the beginning, she was not scared.
"But when I started to shout, I thought that nobody could hear me. Then I started to be very scared about the situation."
Her frantic cries in Spanish were heard by a group of Portuguese-speaking Brazilians at a local camping ground, who called police.
It was dark and wet by the time the Queenstown alpine cliff rescue team found her, and a team member started to abseil towards where she had fallen.
"I don't remember how much time I was stuck there before the police arrived," she said.
Her rescuer improvised a harness and lowered them both to the bottom of the bluff.
Flores said she thought "many times" that she would die.
Senior Constable Julian Cahill, the Queenstown Search and Rescue co-ordinator, said the woman was perilously close to a 10m drop and might have been killed if she fell.
"In the best-case scenario, she would have just broken bits and pieces."
He estimated the woman was 150m above Queenstown the gondola terminal is 300m further up Bobs Peak.
Although scared during her ordeal, Cahill described the woman as "very brave and quite determined".
"I don't think she would have lasted the night, she would have succumbed to the cold and fallen."
2. Man Survives Collision with Train
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080524/NEWS01/80524002/1002/RSS
By Cristen Martin
Louisiana Gannett News
May 24, 2008
MONROE -- Having climbed out of a truck that was struck by a train, a Baton Rouge man says he's lucky to be alive.
Dale Causey, 46, was driving an ABC Professional Tree Service boom truck across railroad tracks near Booth Street at Milhaven Road about 11 a.m. Friday when he crossed into the path of an oncoming Kansas City Southern freight train. The train struck the rear of the truck and caused it to roll onto its side.
Causey was not injured.
"I crossed the track behind my supervisor then I heard the horn. It caught the tail end of the truck and rolled it over. I’m still nervous."
After the wreck, Causey said, he unbuckled his seatbelt and crawled out of the truck. Emergency medical personnel examined him at the scene.
Sgt. Todd Walden said Causey was cited for failure to yield.
Monroe police, Ouachita sheriff’s deputies and the Monroe Fire Department responded to the wreck. Because it occurred on a railroad track, the sheriff’s office had responsibility for working it.
3. Missing Divers Rescued Off Barrier Reef
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1317050,00.html?f=rss
Updated:12:25, Saturday May 24, 2008
A missing British diver and his American companion have been rescued after a night floating in shark-infested waters.
Rescuers reach one of the diversThe 38-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, who had been diving on Australia's Great Barrier reef, were saved after a night-long search involving more than a dozen aircraft.
A plane crew spotted them floating nine miles from where their dive began near the Whitsunday Islands, off the eastern coast.
They had been drifting for 20 hours by the time a helicopter winched them aboard and flew them to a Queensland hospital.
A local official credited the divers' survival to their experience and ability to remain calm.
"They strapped themselves together using their weight belts, they conserved energy, stayed as a pair and awaited rescue," Queensland state police Superintendent Shane Chelepy said.
He said the pair became lost on Friday afternoon when they resurfaced after diving on a reef and found themselves 200 metres from their chartered dive boat.
An air search began off the tropical east coast after they failed to rejoin the dive boat at the scheduled time.
Three aircraft, including a specialised search plane with infrared night vision equipment, searched into Friday night.
The search was expanded at first light with seven helicopters and three more planes.
Police have not released the divers' names.
4. Melinda Gates Urges Girls to Find a Way to Save the World
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004435810_melindagates24.html
By Kristi
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Melinda Gates attended an all-girls academy.
It's not surprising that Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart would appeal to Melinda Gates. Every student gets a laptop, freshmen study physics and seniors take trips to Uganda for volunteer work. The Bellevue Catholic school for girls gives parents brochures listing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Gates, who attended an all-girls Catholic academy in Dallas, spoke to students this week as part of the school's 100th anniversary celebration. The co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation urged girls to find ways to help solve global problems.
The world is full of massive inequality, she said, but society has the means to change that.
"There's huge hope, and that's because of the promise of science and technology," she said. "Those two, in combination, are making problems much easier to solve than when I was your age."
When the school opened, Gates noted, Seattle was still a frontier town and women didn't have the right to vote.
"You couldn't get a latte if your life depended on it," she added.
More recently, its proximity to a growing Microsoft and Eastside technology industry has brought an influx of diverse families with tech-savvy parents and confident children. The Gateses recently enrolled their oldest daughter in the school.
These days, Forest Ridge students walk around citing research that shows they perform better at math without boys in the classroom, alumna Margaret Lane said.
Gates said her own role model, a high-school teacher, was a single mother raising three children and earning her Ph.D. in computer science at night.
"She saw I had a talent for math," Gates said. "She made sure I knew it, and she made sure I cultivated it."
The teacher acquired 10 Apple computers for the school, and together they learned about programming.
Gates urged the girls to use their education and skills to advance opportunities for the less fortunate.
She related her experiences visiting struggling neighborhoods in Los Angeles last year, and traveling to Africa, Bangladesh and India.
"I'm so struck with what we have in common with people in those countries despite our extraordinarily different circumstances," she said.
She met women living in a one-room shack who had nothing to offer but a small mat for her to sit on across the floor from them.
"I so love talking with them," she said. "In those moments in their home, you can so clearly see and understand how much they completely love their children ... what they want so desperately for their children is to have a healthy life and be happy."
She mentioned the Gates Foundation's work on malaria, a disease that kills 2,000 children a day, the equivalent of two school gymnasiums full of people, she said.
"If you're like me, making that personal connection is something that will change your life. I can't go to Africa every time and not come back a changed person," she said. "If you open yourself up to what you see there and let it inside, you cannot go back."
She told students to adopt a social problem like homelessness or a disease like HIV/AIDS.
"Spend a few hours online, e-mail the experts, follow the debates, share what you learn with your friends," she said. "Go out and find the toughest problems. They are solvable. You have a lifetime to work on them."
Gates herself is already a role model at the school, whose students were once known as "a bunch of nerdy girls up on the hill in uniforms," driven around in limousines, said graduate Danielle Matthews, 20.
The reality is much different, and service to society has been an integral part of the curriculum, she said. "Going to the school, you want volunteering to be part of your life," she said.
After her talk, Gates mingled with parents, teachers and alumnae.
"This is Melinda Gates standing here at the same school where they are," said Liz Dickson, whose daughter is a junior at Forest Ridge. "I think it's very inspirational."
Added alumna Kathleen Matthews, 18, "She makes it sound so easy."
Kristi Heim: 206-464-2718 or kheim@seattletimes.com
5. Archeologists Find Human Remains about 2,500 Years Old on Guam
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080524/NEWS01/805240311/1002
By Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno
Pacific Daily News
May 24, 2008
Skeletons of people who lived on Guam about 2,500 years ago were discovered when a swimming pool was removed to renovate the Guam Hotel Okura in Tumon Bay.
Archeologist David DeFant yesterday described the discovery's significance in both the age and number of human remains found.
"This discovery represents one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved prehistoric burial populations ever uncovered in the Western Pacific Region," DeFant said. "The results of this research will make a significant contribution to our understanding of how these early people lived and perhaps where they came from."
According to DeFant, previous finds in the Marianas involved human remains that were typically not older than 1,000 to 1,500 years old. The extent of previous finds in the Marianas also do not measure up to this one, in that more than 177 human remains dating back about 2,500 years were found at the Okura site.
There were about five sets of ancient human remains found at the Fiesta Resort Guam area a few years ago, and those were about 1,500 years old.
"I really can't compare this with anything else that can be found in the Marianas," DeFant said. A number of ancient human skeletons have been found in various Marianas locations, such as Saipan, but they typically date back 1,000 years, he said.
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology recently published an article discussing this discovery.
DeFant has worked as an archeologist in the Marianas for about 20 years. He's with the archeological firm Paul H. Rosendahl Inc., which contractors can call when construction projects uncover ancient human remains.
Further studies and tests will be done on the human skeletons to determine how people lived 2,500 years ago on Guam -- and where they came from.
"They're not the first inhabitants on Guam, but there are indications that some of the artifacts found may have come from elsewhere," DeFant.
There also will be an attempt to find any remaining DNA from the human remains, and if it's found, further studies can trace their ancestry.
With DNA, he said, "we can make an indication of who these people are mostly related to."
Under the pool
Another part of what makes this latest discovery amazing, DeFant said, is the remains were found underneath the old Okura swimming pool. The human remains were found about 6 feet below the ground surface.
The old pool was removed as part of the Okura's upgrades, which started in 2006 and included construction of resort villas. The Okura is now known as the Guam Aurora Resort Villa and Spa.
"It's amazing how they survived underneath the pool," DeFant said.
The human remains were probably not buried that deep, but over the many years that passed since their burial, they got buried deeper as sand deposits and erosion from higher ground kept building up, he said.
Today's Guam residents will learn, as a result of future studies, how the early Guam residents lived, what they ate and what their lifestyle involved, DeFant said.
In accordance with Guam law, after the skeletal remains are analyzed, they will be reburied, DeFant said. A monument at the Aurora resort will house the burial site.
He added the artifacts found along with the human remains are by law the property of the hotel, but its owners plan to display some of the artifacts at the property and donate others to the Guam Museum. DeFant said the remains are not likely to be seen in a public venue.
Archeological work on the site lasted for 18 months and resulted in the excavation of 367 prehistoric human skeletons, according to DeFant. About half of the remains were from the Latte Period, between the years 1000 and 1521.
"These Latte Phase burials were found within three distinct clusters that likely represent where Latte houses once stood," DeFant said.
Burial sites that could be avoided by construction were left undisturbed within the hotel property.
In February, a group of traditional Chamorro chanters offered a ceremonial blessing of the human remains still preserved on the hotel grounds.
Tools
Also noteworthy, DeFant said, is the unusually large number of finely made tools and ornaments found with the skeletons.
"These artifacts include nearly complete pottery vessels, necklaces made of hundreds of both small and large shell beads, shell bracelets, shell pendants, woodworking tools made of stone and shell, stone tools used for food preparation, unusually large shell fish hooks, net sinkers made of stone and shell, and large oyster shells of unknown function," according to DeFant in a statement.
"Some of these artifact forms have not been previously associated with the early inhabitants of Guam and much of the raw material used in the manufacture of these artifacts does not appear to be native to the Mariana Islands," he stated.
DeFant served as the principal investigator for the archeological investigations. Lynn Leon Guerrero was the field and laboratory Supervisor and Russell Kanai served as excavation crew chief. Joanne Eakin assisted with the fieldwork and will supervise analysis of the human skeletal remains.
Honorable Mentions:
1. New DNA Evidence Overturns Population Migration Theory in Island Southeast Asia
Published: 20 hours ago, 11:40 EST, May 23, 2008
http://www.physorg.com/news130761648.html
Malaysian Borneo is part of Island Southeast Asia
An international research team has discovered new DNA evidence to overturn conventional theories that suggest that the present-day populations of Island Southeast Asia (covering the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysian Borneo) came from Taiwan 4,000 years ago.
The researchers show that population dispersals came earlier, from within the region, and probably resulted from flooding.
The conventional theory, or the ‘out of Taiwan’ model, suggests that the current day populations of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) originate in a Neolithic expansion from Taiwan, driven by rice agriculturalists about 4,000 years ago. This theory was contested 10 years ago by Oxford University scientist, Dr Stephen Oppenheimer, in his book Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia, when he suggested the migrations came from within ISEA and resulted from flooding in the region.
This latest study, led by Leeds University and published in this month’s Molecular Biology and Evolution, shows that a substantial fraction of the mitochondrial DNA lines (inherited by female descendants) have been evolving within ISEA for a much longer period, some since modern humans arrived about 50,000 years ago. The DNA lineages show population dispersals at the same time as sea level rises and also show migrations into Taiwan, east out to New Guinea and the Pacific, and west to the Southeast Asian mainland – within the last 10,000 years.
Study co-author Dr Oppenheimer, from the Oxford University School of Anthropology, said: ‘One of my main predictions in the book was that three major floods following the Ice Age forced the inhabitants to escape in boats and flee to less flood-prone regions. By examining mitochondrial DNA from their descendants in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, we now have strong evidence to support the flooding theory and this is possibly why Southeast Asia has a richer store of flood myths, more than any other region in the world.’
Dr Oppenheimer’s book, based on multidisciplinary evidence, writes about the effects of the drowning of a huge ancient continent called ‘Sundaland’ (that extended the Asian landmass as far as Borneo and Java). This happened during the period 15,000 to 7,000 years ago following the last Ice Age. He outlines how rising sea levels in three massive pulses caused flooding and the submergence of the Sunda Continent, creating the Java and South China Seas and the thousands of islands that make up Indonesia and the Philippines today.
Martin Richards, the first Professor of Archaeogenetics at Leeds University, who led the interdisciplinary research team, said: ‘I think the study results are going to be a big surprise for many archaeologists and linguists, on whose studies conventional migration theories are based. These population expansions had nothing to do with agriculture, but were most likely to have been driven by climate change, in particular global warming and the resulting sea-level rises at the end of the Ice Age between 15,000 to 7,000 years ago.’
Source: Oxford University
2. Failed HIV Drug Gets Second Chance with Addition of Gold Nanoparticles
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ncsu-fhd052308.php
Public release date: 23-May-2008
Contact: Tracey Peake
tracey_peake@ncsu.edu
919-515-6142
North Carolina State University
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that adding tiny bits of gold to a failed HIV drug rekindle the drug’s ability to stop the virus from invading the body’s immune system.
The addition of gold nanoparticles to a modified version of a drug designed in the 1990s to combat HIV – but discarded due to its harmful side effects – creates a compound that prevents the virus from gaining a cellular foothold, say Dr. Christian Melander, assistant professor of chemistry at NC State, and doctoral student T. Eric Ballard.
Their findings appear online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The drug, a compound known as TAK-779, was originally found to bind to a specific location on human T-cells, which blocks the HIV virus’ entry to the body’s immune system. Unfortunately, the portion of the drug’s molecule that made binding possible had unpleasant side effects. When that portion of the molecule – an ammonium salt – was removed, the drug lost its binding ability.
That’s when the researchers turned to gold as the answer. The element is non-reactive in the human body, and would be the perfect “scaffold” to attach molecules of the drug to in the absence of the ammonium salt, holding the drug molecules together and concentrating their effect.
“The idea is that by attaching these individual molecules of the drug with a weak binding ability to the gold nanoparticle, you can magnify their ability to bind,” Melander says.
The researchers’ theory proved correct. They started with a modified version of TAK-779, which didn’t include the harmful ammonium salt. After testing, they found that attaching 12 molecules of the modified drug (SDC-1721) to one nanoparticle of gold restored the drug’s ability to prevent HIV infection in primary cultured patient cells. When only one molecule of the drug was attached to the gold nanoparticle, the compound was unable to prevent HIV infection, indicating that the multivalency of the drug was important for its activity.
“We’ve discovered a non-harmful way to improve the strength and efficacy of an important drug,” Melander says. “There’s no reason to think that this same process can’t be used with similar effect on other existing drugs.”
3. Ancient Chinese Irrigation System Stands Test of Time - and Quake
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/349464/1/.html
Posted: 23 May 2008 0105 hrs
DUJIANGYAN, China : High above the world's oldest operating irrigation system, Zhang Shuanggun, a local villager, stands on an observation platform cracked by China's massive earthquake last week.
She has a simple answer for why the ancient, bamboo-based Dujiangyan irrigation system sustained only minor damage, while nearby modern dams and their vast amounts of concrete are now under 24-hour watch for signs of collapse.
"This ancient project is perfection," Zhang said.
From the hillside platform, the workings of the ingenious irrigation project that is now a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site are clearly visible.
Built from 256 BC, the system involved diverting the Minjiang River's flow using man-made islands built on bamboo frames that allowed water and fish to flow freely underneath.
UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organisation, says the system "controls the waters of the Minjiang River and distributes it to the fertile farmland" of the plains.
It is "a major landmark in the development of water management and technology and is still discharging its functions perfectly."
The irrigation system is at the foot of mountains on the edge of Dujiangyan, about 50 kilometres from the epicentre of the May 12 quake which measured 8.0 on the Richter scale and killed more than 40,000 people.
Yet despite its close proximity to the quake, the system suffered only minor damage and was not compromised, according to the government.
At the same time, several dams were damaged by the earthquake and are now under constant watch for signs of collapse amid concerns they may not be able to withstand strong aftershocks or flooding.
"The earthquake this time has caused damage at various levels to reservoirs and dams," Gu Junyaun, the chief engineer at the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said this week.
"Dam safety experts have been put in place to monitor the operation of the dams 24 hours a day."
Thousands of people have been evacuated in various areas of quake-hit Sichuan province due to fears of bursting dams.
Qushan, a major town that suffered major damage in the quake, is being relocated altogether partly because of the threat that a dam above it will collapse and send torrents of water through the area.
The contrasting fates of the ancient irrigation system and the modern dams offer a cautionary tale for China as it continues its love affair with trying to tame its vast rivers.
Hundreds of dams have been built, or are being constructed, across the country, and environmentalists have repeatedly warned of the folly of doing so in quake-prone areas such as Sichuan.
But no one has such fears about the Dujiangyan irrigation project.
"The irrigation system is reliable and solid," said He Quyun, 66, a woman who lives above the project in hills which are prone to rock falls since the quake.
"The skills of the ancient people, the architect, were so high," said another area resident, a former village Communist Party secretary who declined to give his name.
He was resting outside the now-closed ornamental gate through which tourists would normally visit the irrigation project.
From above, the project looks deceptively simple.
The river splits around a heavily forested and slightly curved island about one kilometre long.
At the top of the island, a protrusion which residents call the "fish mouth" pokes into the river and helps it divide. On one side is a modern dam with flood gates through which the river passes.
On the other is a narrower channel which flows towards the plain where it waters the fields of Xu Shifu and other farmers.
"Yes, it comes from there," Xu, 52, said, leaning on a hoe beside his brown fields of wheat almost ready for harvest. "It's a small tributary... it's originally from the fish mouth."
While his wife planted corn seedlings along the edge of the wheat field, Xu explained that if his paddy needs extra water, it could be directed into his fields through a system linked to the ancient water works. - AFP/de
4. Locksmith in Longview Cracks Safe that Baffled Feds, MIT
Friday, May 23, 2008
Page updated at 10:19 am
By The Associated Press
LONGVIEW — A locksmith has managed to open a 159-year-old safe that baffled other professional safecrackers and an expert from MIT.
In 2 ½ hours this week, Lock Doc proprietor Tom Gorham got the safe open by spinning the dial and feeling for grooves to get the combination, a technique called manipulation.
The 1-ton safe was forgotten for decades until it was discovered at Hanthorn Cannery on the waterfront in Astoria, Ore., and owner Floyd Holcomb wanted it opened without being damaged.
"You've got to have a lot of patience, and concentration doesn't hurt," Gorham said.
He said the safe defied the efforts of an expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gorham's wife, Kelly, also a locksmith, said another professional safe cracker gave up after 14 hours of trying.
The couple moved to Longview after 18 years in Los Angeles. They asked to try their luck after watching a television report on unsuccessful attempts to open the safe.
Holcomb found the safe during renovation work for a shopping area along Pier 39 in Astoria. He said he inquired of several longtime Astorians and could not recall seeing it open.
No one will say yet what was inside. Holcomb wanted to tell the cannery's board of directors before letting the public know, Kelly Gorham said.
5. Five Sanctuaries in India to get Tiger Reserve Status
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/5_new_sanctuaries_for_tigers/articleshow/3066728.cms
23 May 2008, 1742 hrs IST,PTI
NEW DELHI: Five wildlife sanctuaries in the country will soon be getting tiger reserve status for better management of the conservation plans for the big cat in its core habitat.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority in a meeting held recently has given an "in-principle" approval to four new reserves, a senior official said on Friday.
These are Sunabeda Tiger Reserve in Orissa, Shahyadri Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh and Ratapani Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.
All the four states had submitted proposals to the Union Environment Ministry seeking tiger reserve status to the wildlife sanctuaries and national parks.
The Authority also accorded approval on a proposal from Karnataka to treat Nagarahole National Park, which was a part of Bandipur Tiger Reserve, as a separate reserve for the big cat, the official said.
Getting tiger reserve status will help the parks secure more Central funds for protection of the endangered animal.
The four new tiger reserves are in addition to the eight parks for which clearance was given in January. At present, there are 28 tiger reserves in the country.
The meeting held under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Environment and Forests S Regupathy also discussed the reports of the committees constituted by the Authority for refinement of monitoring process and strategy for tiger reserves affected by extremist disturbances.
"The Authority also took note of the recent all India tiger estimation findings, and protection strategy in tiger reserves," the officials said.
The Authority approved several other proposals, including funding support for research and monitoring through the Wildlife Institute of India and radio telemetry monitoring of tigers.
Support to NGOs for capacity building, research and tiger estimation and tiger reintroduction proposals were also given green signal at the meeting.
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