• The Government has recently approved the setting up of 7 PM MITRA parks as announced in Union Budget for 2021-22. 
• The Scheme aims to realise the vision of building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat and to position India strongly on the Global textiles map.
• PM MITRA is inspired by the 5F vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister.
• The '5F' Formula encompasses - Farm to fibre; fibre to factory; factory to fashion; fashion to foreign.
• This integrated vision will help furthering the growth of textile sector in the economy.
• No other competing nation has a complete textile ecosystem like us. India is strong in all five Fs.
• The 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel Parks (PM MITRA) will be setup at Greenfield / Brownfield sites located in different willisng States.

Ecological Threat Report (ETR)

• The Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) has recently released the Ecological Threat Report (ETR).
• This is the second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which covers 178 independent states and territories.
• The ETR is unique in that it combines measures of resilience with the most comprehensive ecological data available to shed light on the countries least likely to cope with extreme ecological shocks, now and into the future.
• It analyses risk from population growth, water stress, food insecurity, droughts, floods, cyclones, rising temperatures and sea levels.
• The Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), a leading international think-tank, also produces indexes such as the Global Peace Index and Global Terrorism Index.

• The world lost about 14% of its coral reefs in the decade after 2009, mainly because of climate change.
• Coral reefs harbour the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally.
• The first global bleaching event occurred in 1998, but many reefs bounced back. That no longer appears to be the case.
• Despite covering less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, reefs host more than one quarter of all marine fish species, in addition to many other marine animals.
• Additionally, reefs provide a wide variety of ecosystem services such as subsistence food, protection from flooding and sustaining the fishing and tourism industries.
• Their disappearance will therefore have economic, social and health consequences.

• National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has recently approved the Chhattisgarh’s proposal to declare the combined areas of the Guru Ghasidas National Park & Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve.
• The 11th Technical Committee of the NTCA approved the proposal under the Section 38V (1) of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
• [Section 38V (1) of WPA, 1972 (Tiger Conservation Plan) - The State Government shall, on the recommendation of the NTCA, notify an area as a tiger reserve.]
• The new tiger reserve is located in the northern part of Chhattisgarh, bordering Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
• Both Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary and Guru Ghasidas National Park were identified as reserve forests.
• Turning Guru Ghasidas into a Tiger Reserve is important as it provides a corridor for tigers to move between Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (Madhya Pradesh) and Palamau Tiger Reserve (Jharkhand).

• The Indian sub-continent is part of the Central Asian Flyway (CAF) that covers a large area of Eurasia between the Arctic and Indian Oceans.
• This flyway comprises several important migration routes of birds.
• Including India, there are 30 countries under the Central Asian Flyway.
• It covers at least 279 populations of 182 migratory water bird species, including 29 globally threatened species.