The content of this book is the first preview of Chandoli National Park, located in Northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. It comes under one of the world heritage sites from India. It depicts the status of wildlife diversity (tetrapoda), conservation and management practices of Chandoli National Park during the decade of 2000 to 2010. This publication will be act as case study of the Chandoli National Park and will be helpful in planning the strategies of management in future to enhance the conservative practices and to flourish the biodiversity. The data of this book is a baseline...

Electricity production form coal based power plant is the cheapest and technologically suitable method. The use of coal in these power plant results in to production of fly ash. The extent of production of fly ash depends upon type and quality of coal used like lignite, anthracite bituminous and sub bituminous coal. The fly ash spreads around thermal power plant. The fly ash also dispersed off in the form of slurry or sludge, in the near by area of Thermal Power Plant i.e. at disposal sites. The soil becomes infertile and may convert in to barren land due to leaching . The constituents of fly...