The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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Pain in the pipeline
What looked like a boon has turned into a nightmare for the 130 farming families in the Caucasus village of Khaishi, Georgia. They feel cheated out of the us $330,000 that an oil company owed them
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Is it the end?
For two historical water bodies in Hyderabad
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Linking conservation with CPLRs: Lessons from management of Gir- protected area
The policy discourse on management of protected areas (PAs) has come a long way from purely conservationist strategies to participatory approaches. In between these two there is a wide range of options that combine different elements of resource sharing, market regulation and privatization.
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Forests and wildlife statistics India 2004
The Ministry of of Environment and Forests had been bringing out forest statistics based on the data received from the States/UTs. Efforts have been made in the Ministry in obtaining and compiling the data from the States/UTs on important parameters relating to forestry and wildlife and bringing it out in the form of a compilation "Forests and wildlife statistics, India 2004".
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Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency: 1792-1881
The article attempts to highlight the colonial commercial forest policy vis-
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Don t let the carbon go
Be careful how land use and land cover changes
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Bridging the gap: sharing responsibility for ecological restoration and wildlife conservation on private lands in Western Ghat
A major conservation issue, particularly in the tropics, is habitat loss and fragmentation due to developmental activities and increasing human populations.
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Bridging the gap: Sharing responsibility for ecological restoration
<p>A major conservation issue, particularly in the tropics, is habitat loss and fragmentation due to developmental activities and increasing human populations.
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Forest fragmentation and Asian elephants-Conservation and conflict in the Valparai plateau, Anamalai hills, India
The Anamalai, a hill range in southern India named after the Asian elephant Elephas maximus, contains the second largest population of this endangered flagship species in India. Within this region lies the Valparai plateau, a 200 km
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Climate change and agricultural vulnerability
The methodology and results reported in this study form a first comprehensive and integrated global ecological