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Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa
Ingvild Jenssen from the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking explains how tougher regulations simply relocated the shipbreaking industry, and how the public can help stop the trade.
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Ecologist
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Contribution of NTFPs in the livelihood of mangrove forest dwellers of Sundarban
Sundarbans are the world’s largest mangrove biomes having highest mangrove
- Date:
- Mar 2010
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- Journal of Human Ecology Vol: 29 Issue: 3 pp: 191-200
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Incentive mechanism for preventing deforestation and promoting conservation of forest ecosystem
Normal Central Assistance and Additional Central Assistance (ACA) are devolved by the Planning Commission to assist the State Governments in specific areas. The present paper details an incentive mechanism for preventing deforestation and promoting conservation of forest ecosystems.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Current Science Vol: 98 Issue: 4 pp: 489-498
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Sunderbans will drown in 60 yrs: WWF
Kolkata: The World Wide Fund for Nature has warned that days are numbered for much of the sensitive Sunderbans eco-system and in 60 years, vast tracts of the mangroves, home to the Bengal tiger, will go under sea.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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MMRDA has just 2 projects in Rs6,000 crore budget
Mumbai: Admitting that their income through land sale in Bandra-Kurla Complex has suffered a jolt due to recession, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) presented a Rs6,143-crore budget for the financial year 2010-11 on Tuesday.
- Date:
- 10/02/2010
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- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Shelter from the storm? Use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters
Vegetated coastal ecosystems provide goods and services to billions of people. In the aftermath of a series of recent natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and Cyclone Nargis, coastal vegetation has been widely promoted for the purpose of reducing the impact of large storm surges and tsunami.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- Conservation Letters Vol: 3 Issue: 1 pp: 1-11
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Expert panel to study Mithi tidal movement
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday appointed a three-member expert committee to study the tidal movement of the Mithi river after construction of a 300-metre long wall on the Vakola Nalla. The committee, which has been told to submit a report in four week, will also look at the effects the wall construction has on the surrounding mangroves.
- Date:
- 29/01/2010
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- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Court bans non-forest activities in mangroves
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, in an important order, banned "non-forest activities" in mangrove areas along the state's
coast.
A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice B R Gavai ruled that its directive would hold irrespective of whether the government had notified a mangrove plot as "protected forests" or not.
- Date:
- 28/01/2010
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- Times Of India (Mumbai)
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No non-forest activity allowed in mangrove areas, says HC
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that no non-forest activity can be permitted in the areas where mangroves grow, even if such areas have not been yet declared as ‘protected forests’.
- Date:
- 28/01/2010
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- Indian Express (Mumbai)
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Mangrove as breast cancer cure?
RABINDRA NATH CHOUDHURY
A scientist in the Institute of Life Science (ILS) here, a research body functioning under department of biotechnology, government of India, on Monday claimed to have discovered that the extract of mangrove plants can cure breast cancer.
- Date:
- 19/01/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
