Green panchayats
the Punjab government has evolved a new strategy to increase the state's forest cover as well as promote social forestry. The forestland in Punjab is less than 10 per cent of its area while,
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Veerappan is popular...
...among local villagers because he involves them in sandalwood smuggling and shares the benefits
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Success story
A seven acre farm near Puttur in Karnataka has achieved sustainability of water resources by low cost rain harvesting methods, something that couldn't be achieved with 15 bore wells dug over a period
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Bhoj Wetland project period extended
The Japan Bank for International Co-operation has consented to extend the Bhoj Wetland Project implementation period upto March 2003. This was informed here at a meeting held for Bhopal on Saturday
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Did this felling exercise bear any fruit?
Miscreants felled about 100 fruit-bearing plants, including over 50 coconut saplings, at a farm in Vaddy-Merces. The incident, which is believed to have occurred in the wee hours of Friday, became known only in the morning when the daughters of the owner, Anthony Pereira, went to the farm. Though the exact reason behind the incident is not known, Mr Pereira and his family suspect that the incident could be linked to a tenants' association, of which Mr Pereira is the vice chairman.
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Vehicles cause 64 pc of Delhi's pollution
Vehicular pollution contributes 64 per cent of the total pollution in the Capital, informed the Minister of Environment and Forests, Mr T.R. Baalu, told the Rajya Sabha today. According to the
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State mulls steps to regulate water use
Maharashtra is planning to regulate water use. The state government has drafted a bill to set up a regulatory authority that would oversee the drawing and distribution of water, officials said.
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Laboratory set up at Shristhal water treatment plant
After a long period of 18 years since the inception of the Drinking Water Treatment Plant at Morkhad-Shristhal in Canacona, a full fledged laboratory to carry out physical, chemical and
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Limits of Growth
A typical Indian village shares a complex, yet fragile ecological equation with both private and common resources. Even a small disturbance can lead to poverty
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BMC bans digging of bore wells
Bhopal Municipal Corporation(BMC) has banned digging of borewells within a distance of 150 mts. Those violating the directive would have to face action against provisions of MP Drinking Water Testing
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Amazon Defender Quits As Brazil Environment Minister
Brazil's environment minister, hailed as a champion of the green movement but scorned by powerful farming groups, resigned on Tuesday after losing key battles in her efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest. Marina Silva's resignation is likely to reinforce the view that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is more concerned with economic development than conservation as a commodities export boom fuels Brazil's growth. It could also be a setback for Brazil's ambitions to become a major voice in global environmental debates.
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BMC gives in to Powai residents, backtracks from hacking 150 trees
In a rare victory to the residents, the BMC's tree authority has backtracked from hacking hundreds of trees for the Powai Lake beautification, settling to move just 30 trees in a new proposal. The authorities have also agreed to plant 300 more trees around the jogging track to make the area lush. In February, the tree authority had put notices on 150 trees that would be uprooted to lay a two km jogging track as part of the Rs 12-crore beautification project. However, after three months of incessant protests by residents, the tree authority last week reconsidered their proposal.
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Water scarcity affects BHEL medicinal forest
The severe scarcity of water and wrong approach of slum dwellers have consumed the medicinal forest of the Bharat Heavy Electricity Limited(BHEL) for which it had spent a huge sum for nuturing and
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Bangladesh, India to work to save Sundarban forest
Bangladesh and India will work together under a United Nations plan to protect the eco-system and bio-diversity of Sundarban, the world's biggest mangrove forest shared by the two countries,
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SC clears Subansiri Lower Power Project
The Supreme Court today cleared the last hurdle in construction of the Rs 7000 crore Subansiri Lower Power Project in Assam, by giving its seal of approval to the project. The apex court's clearance
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PM urged to implement Sethusamudram project
The MDMK leader, Vaiko, today urged the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, to take appropriate steps for the implementation of Sethusamudram canal project. In a letter to Mr. Vajpayee, he said on
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Manas park gets another one-horned rhino
The Manas National Park in Assam has received its fourth one-horned rhino, seven years after its approximately 100-strong population was wiped out by poachers. On February 24, the one-and-a-half-year-old female rhino was released in the Kuribeel area of the Bansbari range in the park. The four rhinos, all orphaned female, rescued by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), its partner the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the Assam Forest Department, were hand-raised at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation near the Kaziranga National Park. The first three rhinos were transferred to Manas by the WTI-IFAW in 2006. Releasing the rhinos, A.K. Swargiary, Director of the park, expressed the hope that this action would mark the beginning of the revival of the rhino population there. This would be followed by wild-to-wild transfer by the Indian Rhino Vision 2020 team. The last native rhino in the park, a female, was killed by poachers on the Kokilabari beat in 2001 after two decades of ethnic strife, which left most of the park devastated and claimed the lives of eight forest officials. Ucchila, about 5 km from Kuribeel, was considered the best habitat for the rhino and had the highest concentration of the animal. It is expected that the four female rhinos would move to this area. The young rhino which was released in Manas last week was rescued from a tea garden next to the Kaziranga National Park after its mother was shot dead by poachers in September 2007. It was transported for over 300 km to its new home. Park secure The Security Assessment Group of the Indian Rhino Vision 2020, in its update on security assessment, said 80 per cent of the Manas National Park was secure and that it was safe to release the animals there. Manas is considered one of the world's richest biodiversity hotspots, contiguous to forests of Bhutan. Home to tigers and elephants, it is also a designated Project Tiger Reserve. A repository of 22 critically endangered species, Manas was declared a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation in 1985.
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Centre promotes LPG while talking about clean fuel
The Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry's affidavit, which was filed in the Supreme Court today, says that it has "taken action towards compliance of the directions" as per the court's ruling of
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Every word of court order followed, claims Delhi govt.
The Delhi Government has made several claims in a status report filed before the Supreme Court which is scheduled to take up the CNG case tomorrow. The Court had asked the government to file a
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Govt. urged to halt encroachment
The Pooyamkutty Samrakshana Samithi, which played a key role installing the proposed Pooyamkutty hydel project, has urged the Government to take immediate steps to halt the encroachments on forest in