Power crunch in paradise
Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac
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Curbing selfish sprawl in Tamil Nadu hills
New legislation enacted by the Jayalalitha ministry seeks to contain ecological degradation in the state's hill stations by controlling construction activity. Local residents, however, are doubtful if it will succeed.
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Fade to black...
Coral reefs in the Andaman Sea are losing their colour, owing to extensive bleaching. Experts say global warming is to blame
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Oceans despair
1998. The International Year of the Ocean. But the news from the deep is not good
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Imbalances need to be improved
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Egbert Pelinck</font></font> , director general, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD , Kathmandu, spoke to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Prakash Khanal</font> </font> on conservation
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Divided we stand
Wildlife conservationists and social ecologists are sharply divided despite common goals
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India infrastructure report 2008: business models of the future
The India Infrastructure Report 2008 discusses: competitive bidding models for infrastructure projects and critical factors required for a minimum subsidy model to succeed; models on auction bidding for rural infrastructure, e-governance, and multi-channel delivery mechanism; tolling and payment mechanism models for roads, railways, and airports; models for public service financing and affordable
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Rescuing Buddha
Chinese authorities will give a facelift to the world's tallest stone-carved Buddha just six years after the last repairs as they struggle to mitigate the effects of pollution and crowding, state
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Ice shield
Amajor breakthrough has been achieved in the efforts to tackle environmental emergencies in Antarctica. At the 28th conference on the Antarctica Treaty, which concluded in Stockholm, Sweden on June
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Give us our nuclear dump
South Korean city of Kyongju has accepted to store nuclear dump in exchange for government subsidies worth us $288.2 million and us $5-10 million a year as storage fees. Kyongju city won the
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Royal Bill Kill
Members of Tiger and Wilderness Watch
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Winter Olympics opposed
FRIUILI VENEZA GIULIA or Friends of Earth (FOE) an Italian environmental group, is opposing the Tarvisio town, the venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics. They fear that the games would pose a threat to
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Get on with it
What the prime minister has agreed • Revitalise the National Board for Wildlife/request he prime minister will head the steering committee of Project Tiger • Convert the Project
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Golf mania
The Japanese passion for golf is on a new course. Since 1987, 20 districts covering 32,000 sq km were earmarked for resort development. The total area covered by the resorts will eventually touch
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Path of destruction
a large tract of central America's remaining rainforest is under threat from a road in the remote south of Belize. The construction of the road might lead to the clearing of the entire forest
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International body set up against golf
Representatives of environmental movements in Asia have formed a body to protest the spread of golf
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Animal politics
Kenyan conservationists are opposing a government plan to send hundreds of exotic and endangered animals to Thailand in exchange for a few Asian tigers and elephant training assistance. They believe
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Endangered
THE Asian tigers are imperilled; the booming economies of Asia are facing imminent collapse due to the threat of an AIDS epidemic. Medical experts, academics and social workers attending the
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People s protest
irate locals demonstrated at the Keibul Lamjao national park in Manipur on January 8, blocking the entry of government vehicles and tourists. The park is a natural habitat of the brown-antlered
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Lethal culling
South Africa (sa), again wants to cull elephants, a practice it halted in 1994 in the face of public outrage. Between 1967 and 1994 over 14,000 elephants were "removed' from the country's Kruger