Making a beginning
Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage
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No airing secrets
Scared of losing tourists due to the haze, the Malaysian government makes air quality levels an official secret
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INDONESIA
Forest fires raging in various parts of Indonesia have led to the country's air pollution reaching hazardous level. The smog has spread to parts of neighboring Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The
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Report of the high level working group on Western Ghats (Kasturirangan Western Ghats Report)
<p>Environment ministry accepts this crucial report on Western Ghats prepared by K Kasturirangan-led 10-member high-level working group and decides to declare the Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA) over 37% of the Western Ghats under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Download, read this report along with related documents, studies and more...</p>
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Charawa village to be developed as tourist village: Dilawar
Says area under orchards increases to 97000 hectares, about 4000 hectares of additional land in Jammu division is being brought under fruit plantation under technology Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture during the current financial year raising the total area under horticulture to 97000 hectares. For this purpose, about 5 lakh fruit plants are being supplied to the farmers on subsidized rates. These fruit plants varieties include apple, pears, peach, apricot, walnut, citrous, peacun-nut and olive plants. This was stated by the Minister for Horticulture and PHE Mohammad Dilawar Mir while addressing a gathering of tribal Bakarwals in Charawa village near historic Mansar lake today. The Minister announced that 50 hectares of land in Majalta block will be brought under next year for which about 1250 plants would be distributed among the farmers. He also announced 5 water storage tanks in block Majalta for providing irrigation facilities to the orchardists. He also sanctioned a water reservoir in Charawa village for storage of drinking water. The Minister said that the government have launched an ambitious programme under technology mission to train farmers about latest horticulture technology. He said village women and schoolgirls are being imparted training in fruit and vegetable preservation under technology mission. The Minister said that village Charawa is proposed to be developed as model tourist village under rural tourism development programme to showcase tribal life style, rural cultures and their village life. He said necessary infrastructure in this connection would be developed in the village to make it attracting for domestic and foreign tourists. He said nomadic life style of Bakarwals in Majalta block provide them with perfect skills to become mountain trekking guides for tourists adding that this manpower potential would be exploited optimally to upgrade living standard of the people in the area. Earlier, The Minister inspected renovation works in the famous water body of Mansar lake and directed the concerned officers to make this picnic spot more attractive for tourists. He called for keeping the water body neat and pollution free. ASP asks central govt to frame farmer friendly
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GALAPAGOS SEA
Slaughter goats to save the exotic Galapagos tortoises, says Julian Fitter, chairperson of the newly constituted Galapagos Conservation Trust. The cluster of islands in the Galapagos
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Spain parched
Spain is facing the longest ever dry patch this century. The drought spells disaster for crops. Although the Agrarian Young Farmers Association pegs drought losses at us $2.34 billion, Greenpeace
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Peace isn't elusive
Kashmir s economy is nothing but a sensitive and organised use of its ecology. After 15 years of living under the shadow of the gun, finally, when hope is making a comeback in the state, Kashmir will have to turn to its immense environmental resources to
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Breaking the rules
Amendments to the Coastal Regulation Zone
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Koalas in danger
AUSTRALIA is losing its koala bears, says the Australian Koala Foundation, a conservation group. "If nothing is done, there will not be any koalas in 30 years time," warns Deborah Tabart,
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Call to arms
INTERPOL, the international police body, has declared war against perpetrators of "crime against children". For the first time it has included the issues of child pornography, sex tourism,
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India State of the Environment Report : The Monthly Overview, September 2013
The Kerala government has decided to appeal against two national green tribunal orders that said that the government should take note and adhere to the recommendations of the Western Ghats Expert Ecology Panel (WGEEP) report while approving private and commercial development in eco-sensitive zones. Read more in this September 2013 edition of the Monthly India State of the Environment Report published by the South Asia Environment Portal. Read and Share.
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FOLLOW UP
Highly-polluting, diesel-operated three-wheelers, popularly known as Vikrams, will be banished from the roads of Kathmandu from mid-September. The decision was announced recently by minister of
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THAILAND
The coral reefs off the coast of Thailand may yet be saved because of joint action by conservationists and villagers. A case in point is the village of Sikao in Trang province of
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Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve
Botswana's autochthonous Bushmen (or the San people) have won legal rights to return to their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after the High Court of Botswana ruled against
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Pesticides: Rlys meets standards
Private companies are gearing up to face the challenge of pesticides in their products, but a public sector unit (PSU) has already left them behind in the race. Indian Railways claims that its
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Dam on Teesta spells doom
<font class="UCASE">according</font> to the National Highway (<font class="UCASE">nh</font>) 31A Bachao Committee (<font class="UCASE">nhbc</font>), traffic disruption, due to a landslide in August, continues on <font class="UCASE">nh</font> 31A in Kalimpong, West Bengal. <font class="UCASE">nhbc</font> claims that construction on the Teesta Low Dam Stage III project at 27th Mile led to the landslide. About 50 metres of the highway got washed away, hitting the local economy during the tourist season.<br>
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Floats for green Goa
The government has planned to paint the popular Goa Carnaval green to assuage popular ire against the Rs 600 crore Thapar-DuPont Nylon 6,6 project. "Environment protection" will be the theme in the
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Present imperfect
FLY BY GOA - THE CHANGING SHORES . P V Sathe . 30 Minutes . August . 2002 . Price: Rs 500 This gripping film captures the changes that have taken place in Goa in the last 30 years in just 30
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SOUTH ASIA
Oil spill: The Sri Lankan government is still striving to deal with the oil spill that occurred in mid-September, after a Bangladeshi ship sank off the country's southern coast of Habaraduwa. The