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Where have all the people gone?

The ministry of environment and forests" plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.
- 14/03/1994
- Down To Earth
- - Forest Resources
  - Biodiversity
Droopy dead

New findings suggest the vulture might be falling prey to an infectious disease. The scientific community is not yet certain if the vulture s drooping head explains it all
- 30/10/2000
- Down To Earth
Champions of a new cause

National political parties are often accused of neglecting the environment. Recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party began campaigning against two new industrial units in Maharashtra and demonstrated how it was able to garner popular support by exploiting gre
- 29/09/1993
- Down To Earth
Is it on the right track?

Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment of the track, which, they allege, would wreck the state"s environment. Railway officials, of course, disagree
- 30/10/1992
Time to change

Restrictions on use of natural resources in protected areas are driving the local communities dependent on forest produce for their survival to a state of deprivation. Conservation strategies can be sustainable only when it involves indigenous people in t
- 29/11/1993
- Down To Earth
Time for green gadgets

UNCED has thrown into sharp focus all matters environmental international industry, quick to Catch on to now trends, has started branding its technologies environment friendly and in some cases, started looking for less wasteful ways
- 14/07/1992
- Down To Earth
Sowing less, reaping bare

Yet another controversial move by our environment and forests ministry could ring the death knell for India's biodiversity
- 14/07/1996
- Down To Earth
- - Biodiversity
  - India
Chipping away

Time was, when the Saranda forest cover was so dense that even the sun s rays couldn t penetrate it. Ironically, denudation has driven the region from darkness unto light. And tribal communities are being made the scapegoats
- 30/03/2002
- Down To Earth
Taking the lead

India's chief ministers are beginning to take note of environmental problems. But just about. The Centre for Science and Environment conducted a survey of Down To Earth readers and India's environmentalists. A report on the nature of the work carri
- 14/02/1999
The Element of Doubt About Jairam Ramesh

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- 04/07/2011
- - Environment
 - GDP
Quarrying for trouble

Controversy over Himachal limestone mining The subject of limestone mining in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh has become a political football, with plans changing as governments change. Villagers are divided on
- 14/05/1993
- - Ecology
 - Pollution
 - Mining
 - Limestone
 - Industry
 - Himachal Pradesh
 - India
For the people...

Conservation policies practised in the developing world need to tread cautiously on territories which had for generations, belonged to the people, says a statement by the Centre for Science and Environment
- 30/12/1995
- Down To Earth
- - Wildlife
  - Tiger
  - National Parks
  - Biodiversity
  - CSE
Dang and blast

The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the letter by underdeveloped Indian administrators in the Dangs, Gujarat"s boondocks tribal belt
- 14/06/1995