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  • THAILAND

    THAILAND

    Thailand has decided to charge scuba divers us $4.50 each time they visit popular diving spots in the Andaman Sea. The money would be used for preserving the environment. Plodprasop Suraswadi,

  • Fulfilling labour

    Fulfilling labour

    Parched water tanks in Kanyakumari come alive as locals undertake the revival programme

    • 14/11/2001

  • CHINA

    Water scarcity in China is far more serious than realised. This was revealed in a recent study conducted by the Beijing-based Geological Environmental Monitoring Institute (gemi). The study shows

  • FREE AT LAST

    Bhutan has been declared as

  • FIGHTING FOR GOOD

    In a significant move, some Bangladeshi villagers are filing a group action lawsuit in Britain against the British Geological Survey (BGS). The lawsuit alleges that BGS is responsible for what has

  • Saving sharks

    Saving sharks

    the Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) seems to be getting wiser and waking up to conservation of marine life. In a recent notification, all kind of sharks found in the waters of

  •  Fights for space

    Fights for space

    The human elephant conflict takes a violent turn in Orissa. Two persons injured in police firing <br>

  • Vietnam

    Vietnam

    vietnam: Beginning November 2001, the Vietnamese government will move a herd of Asian elephants from the environmentally-degraded Binh Thuan to the Dak Lak province. The elephants face extinction

  • Water guardians

    The fourth estate joins hand with civil society to check water pollution

    • 30/10/2001

  • Cambodia

    cambodia: Wildlife officials in Cambodia have recently seized over 1,300 endangered animals from restaurants in Phnom Penh. The animals were seized during a three-month-long operation against

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