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Betta lands battle
VILLAGERS in Uttara Kannada district are waging a battle against Karnataka Forest Department officials who are allowing contractors to fell trees in the betta lands -- tracts of forests sanctioned
VILLAGERS in Uttara Kannada district are waging a battle against Karnataka Forest Department officials who are allowing contractors to fell trees in the betta lands -- tracts of forests sanctioned
A significant provision for forests in this year's Union budget may turn out to be a case of missing the forest for the trees. Motivated by a desire to "protect the environment and to save wood,"
Recent protests by villagers of Puddukottai, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam districts in Tamil Nadu, against mushrooming shrimp farms near their settlements, have forced the state government to establish
The Biodiversity Bill to empower local communities under scrutiny of parliamentary standing committee
Star-studded campaigns, millions spent and 20 new cases of polio to show for it. The reason being offered by Uttar Pradesh (up) is lack of adequate routine immunisation. The affected districts are
Brutally frank Gordon K Durnil admits in his book, Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, that the only qualification he had to be on the American continent's senior environmental post
Economic factors have contributed to the untimely demise of Vietnam s forests
Conservation of fruits may be difficult, but that is no excuse. Preservation of national assets should be given top priority
The drive against forest encroachers began in Assam on May 7, 2002. It reached a flashpoint during the eviction drive in Botahguli, where one person died of bullet injuries after paramilitary forces
The municipal authorities of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have given top priority to upgrading the urban infrastructure and protecting the surrounding environment during
Poachers are using widespread farm invasion as a pretext to kill Zimbabwe's rarest animal species, wildlife reserve officials and environmentalist stated. "The invasion of hundreds of farms
two-thirds of the uk 's fish stocks are on the verge of extinction and most of the country's coastal habitats have been destroyed. This was stated in a report of the World Wide Fund for
Native species of Arabia's Wildlife Centre (awc) can beat the heat of the desert. No sweat. For, the government-funded, reserve located on the outskirts of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, is
In the the first survey of its kind in the country, the Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Agency (nrsa) has prepared detailed maps of the underground fires that have raged in the Jharia
China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of millions of Chinese who have migrated there. The document highlights the economic and environmental developm
An agitation against the O"pur dam (at the cortfluence of Banas and Dal II Tonk district Rajasthan, has not @etl@, a sympathetic chord with the stake govem- ment The dam, which envisages
In the last 50 years, India s population has registered a three fold increase
A Cambodian court convicted two Taiwan men in absentia over the dumping of about 3,000 tonnes of mercury-tainted waste last year. The court in the southern port city of Sihanoukville sentenced
At a recent session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (csd), scientists, non-governmental organisations (ngo), farmers and industrialists discussed various farming methods
FOR SEVERAL centuries, Udaipur has been renowned for the exquisite use of marble in its magnificent palaces. But it was known only recently that the city rests atop the world's largest marble