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• The Seychelles government has banned foreign ships licensed to fish in its territorial waters from cutting off of fins of captured sharks, in a move to conserve marine life. Finning is a cruel
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Rethinking evolution
Toxic animals do not have natural predators. And, as per conventional zoology many non-toxic animals copy the behaviour of their poisonous neighbours. But this is not so in case of non-toxic species
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• Following pressure from campaigners, Dutch bank ING has withdrawn its financial support to two pulp mills to be built along the Uruguay river saying it would cause air, water and land
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A tiger by the tail
Amendment to wildlife act deferred
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South Asia
LTTE's water war: In the last week of July, the Sri Lankan army launched a ground offensive against Tamil tiger rebels to regain control over a key water reservoir in the northeastern city of
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Bangla bandh
Neighbour protests against dam
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NEWS SNIPPETS
• Animal rights activists are up in arms over a Halloween contest in New York which offers customers free entry if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The People for the Ethical
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Water pollution threatens China's oldest hydro power station
WATER pollution in China is now threatening one of its oldest hydropower stations, Shilongba Power Plant, located in the western suburbs of Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The plant,
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Letters
Kyoto compliance Our Kyoto compliant waste-to-energy programme coupled with super-green buildings and other Kyoto compliant technologies offer a complete technical answer to climate change. As
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Coasting on unclarity
Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification 1991: The CRZ area is defined as coastal stretches of seas, bays, estuaries, creeks, rivers, backwaters, all influenced by tidal action (in the landward side). The CRZ area is up to 500 metres from the high tide line and the land between the low tide line and high tide line.
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Web Exclusive: Cost of breathing polluted air
A recent World Bank report shows that the economic cost of damage to public health from increased air pollution is still very high in Indian cities. The study, India Strengthening Institutions for
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Managing water locally a good model
In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance, the institutional foundation for providing water supplies lies within the framework of the Panchayati Raj sy
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• The Ministry for Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources of Russia has sold nine plots of wood in the Kaluzhsky region through an Internet auction. Apart from over 1,600 hits from
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Tough line
By passing the Fisheries and Aquatic Resource (Amendment) Bill, the Sri Lankan parliament has made illegal the use of explosives to catch fish. Speaking at a parliamentary debate, the country's
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A fish called subsidy
Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development
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Get cracking!
Trade threatens Brazilian nuts
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Height of inequality
Standard of living determines a child s height
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The generation gap
Offspring of GM organisms are unable to survive till adulthood
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Don t bank on them
Noted financial institutes support projects harmful to the environs
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Locked out
Animals to lose rescue home