A historic flight
BIRD-LOVERS will after all have a chance to gather more information about the highly, endangered wild Siberian cranes. After dragging its feet over the rnatter, the ministry of environment
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Pallor over El Dorado
Severe mercury contamination induced by gold hunters threatens Venezuela's eco system
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Adaptation at work
Ladakh is home to some well adapted breeds
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Restore ecosystems or suffer a lower standard of living
<font class='UCASE'>Andre F Clewell</font> , a US based botanist and plant taxonomist, has for the past 15 years been working on ecological restoration. This relatively new area of science deals with restoring an ecosystem, that has suffered due to human
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Chekhov's hell: Sakhalin faces ravages of oil majors
LAUREN ALLAN-VAIL When the writer Anton Chekhov described Sakhalin as a hellish place, he could have scarcely anticipated the ravages wrought by big oil companies on
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Reconciliation
Lessons from marine ecology
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Fatal plunge
The sorry state of India's animal care services was highlighted when a cub of the elusive and highly endangered snow leopard that died because of a lack of medical facilities in its natural habitat.
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The spirit of the sanctuary
<I>FIVE YEARS ago, the social forestry department in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra cleared several trees from a forest near Nandivse village to plant acacia trees. It did not know that the 4-ha patch was a sacred grove surrounding the temple of a powerful local deity, Kal Bhairon. The villagers, too, joined in because they were paid for the felling and planting.
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Designer food raises storm
The American government"s announcement that genetically engineered food will not be tested or labelled has caused much concern among the people.
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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
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GABON
Lying at the heart of Africa's largest and last belt of rainforest is the Minkette equatorial forest, which is home to Gabon's pygmies. But environmentalists fear that it may soon
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Silent invasion
Non native plant species are growing at the expense of the native in Askot sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh
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In favour of...
...biodiversity or bio plurality? What is of essence is to sustain all that is in the biosphere rather than conserve few forms of biodiversity, says <font class='UCASE'>gopal k kadekodi</font>
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IN COURT
Saving red-legged frogs: The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) recently settled an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (epa) to protect the endangered California red-legged
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Lessons of a drought
Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is show
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Global Conservator
The US is taking its role as the protector of sea turtles worldwide too seriously, ignoring some important factors
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Star cross in Nigeria
NGOs and the Cross River state government are locked in a duel over the latter s plans to grant logging concessions to a Chinese metal company in the state s rich forests
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INDIA
• The minsitry of environment and forests is all set to issue a notification banning the use of plastic bags for packing items such as meat, fish and cooked food. • Flood waters have
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Precariously perched
THERE may be hope yet for the swiftlet, a small Indian bird found only in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which is in danger of becoming endangered. TRAFFIc-India. a branch of Twmc-international
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Dying wetlands
Almost 40 per cent of all wetlands in Assam are under threat