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In yet another instance of animal-human conflict, wild elephants in Meghalaya's West Garo hills are giving the farmers in the area sleepless nights. The pachyderms are descending on the village in
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Sethusamundram project is unviable
The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project's (sscp's) documents concluded that it was going to be a financial white elephant. Many contended otherwise. They claimed that sscp would benefit not just the
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Threatened birds
In a recent presentation on The Threatened Birds of India, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, Bikram Grewal, a prolific writer on the birds of India, revealed the sad
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Crash H - bomb The French government's move to carry out nuclear tests in spite of protests from many countries and environmentalists lends a great amount of curiosity to Richard Rhode's book,
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Rudra Vanam plan to be reviewed
The Kerala state government asked the state legislative committee on environment to look into the proposed building of multi-storied buildings, shopping complexes and helipads close to Sabarimala --
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Avarice!
Given a free hand, industry will turn to huge chucks of forests in the country into ecological graveyards
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Needed: Imaginative wildlife managers
THERE can be no sharper indictment of the government's attempts to protect the environment than this: After 20 years of spending money and effort, Project Tiger is in shambles. Experts say the fate
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Ivory trade to resume
Zimbabwe will be able to sell stockpiles of ivory to Japan, earning US $4 5 million for community development
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Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?
India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.
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Flawed conservation policies lead to decline in gharial population
In the well-known Panchatantra story, a monkey wanting to cross the mighty Ganga befriends a crocodile. But a while into their friendship, the reptile’s intentions turn sinisterĂ€
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Down the drain
How a change in the nature of effluents rendered CETPs redundant in Pali
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Fuelling a revolution
"Elephant grass" can be a potential source of power
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A sanctuary becomes a battlefield
Intelligence agencies of the Assam government have alleged that the 2,387 sq km Manas Tiger Reserve, listed by the UNESCO as a World Heritage site, has become a sanctuary for about 200 Bodo
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Nocturnal zooing
Night life in Singapore can now mean observing tropical animals. A new wildlife park, the Night Safari Park, has been set up on 40 hectares next to the Singapore Zoological Gardens. Across extra-wide
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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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Arrack threat
Conservationists in Kerala want to ban an arrack shop located in the heart of the Chinnar wildlife sanctuary because it endangers the grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura dandolena). The Idukki
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Holistic approach
karnataka has become the first state to draft a comprehensive "biodiversity action plan.' The plan aims at conser ving and promoting sustainable use of biological diversity resources. The
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In Court
Hunter hunted: One of Cambodia's most infamous wildlife hunters has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for trapping and killing over 600 animals, many endangered. Earlier, much concern had
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• African country Chad has ordered two major foreign oil firms, US firm ChevronTexaco and Malaysia's Petronas, responsible for 60 per cent of its oil production, to quit the country in a row
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Animals on the way out
SLOTH bears riding bicycles, leopards jumping through hoops of fire and elephants playing football in the circus ring will soon be a thing of the past. A staggered phase-out of these animals will be