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Metro Vancouver Adopts 2050 Plan Guiding Regional Development
On Friday, Metro Vancouver — the federation of 21 municipalities, just one Electoral Region, and a single Treaty Very first Country — adopted the Metro 2050 plan, an up-to-date regional development strategy environment out massive-photograph ambitions and actions to handle key regional difficulties such as housing, transportation, and city enhancement. Metro 2050 builds on the previous iteration of the federation’s regional growth strategy, Metro Vancouver 2040, with the up-to-date iteration concentrating far more on addressing weather transform, affordable housing, and regional enhancement, whilst also guaranteeing the strategy aligns with Transportation 2050, the region’s transportation tactic. “The adoption of this prepare is a important accomplishment,” George V. Harvie, Chair of Metro Vancouver’s Board of…
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Sloth bear attacks: regional differences and safety messaging
Seasonality of human–bear conflict On the Deccan Plateau and Gujarat, most sloth bear attacks occurred in winter, which differs significantly from the seasonality of attacks reported by other studies. Unlike other study areas, people on the Deccan Plateau and in Gujarat are more active in the forest in winter when monsoons and crop harvests have ended. The higher incidence of attacks during monsoons in central India correlates with the increased presence of people farming and protecting crops from cattle depredation, as well as from bears and other wildlife species grazing in nearby forested areas5, 16,17,18. The Kanha–Pench Corridor study was the only one which documented an increase in sloth bear…