Fights for space
The human elephant conflict takes a violent turn in Orissa. Two persons injured in police firing <br>
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Unique opportunity for Kamal Nath
ALL OVER the country, there are tensions around national parks and sanctuaries. People living in and around these forests see them as the last remaining sources of biomass and depend on them heavily
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Officials gloat over eviction of tribals
By evacuating tribal encroachers from around the Dudhwa park, forest officials have won another round in the struggle for access to forests. But for how long?
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Illicit Staple
Ritual offering, survival food, index of sophistication: what s pagan about northeast India s penchant for wild meat?
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Home away from home
instances of animals straying out of forests are growing of late. With the aim to prevent these, the Maharashtra state forest department is chalking out a novel project. As per the project,
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Experts call for people-oriented conservation
The total preservation policy has alienated people living in and around national parks and caused much harm to the forests. Experts say effective conservation will not be possible unless this policy is reversed.
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India
Asia's biggest forestry project - the Rs 795 crare Madhya Pradesh forestry project - has been launched on October 16 in the state. The main aims of the project are to conserve biological
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Divide And Rule
Policies that alienate the people from control over their habitat can cost the country dearly in terms of green cover and air and water quality
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Status quo how long?
The tribal rights bill has been held hostage by vested interests
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Coating Autonomy With Colonialism
In the year of UNCED, the green movement continued to take tosses in the global context. The perception of the environmental crisis as mainly being a failure of technology and management was only one obstacle. Even more disastrous, UNCED paved the way for
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Second look
Wildlife project under review
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The endangered Asian elephant
International trade in ivory and poaching
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Species in peril
India is among the top 10 countries threatened with high species loss
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Where are the tapovans ?
Both India and China are ancient civilisations possessing characteristic indigenous knowledge of conservation of natural ecosystems. The Chinese have recognised the potential of traditional knowledge and regard religious forests as an asset and an importa
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Pesticides are wiping out cranes
<font class='UCASE'><font color=red>George Archibald</font></font> , director, International Crane Foundation ICF , USA, has been a regular visitor to Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur. In 1993 94, an attempt was made to introduce captive reared
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Our wilds, their homes
City based perceptions of forest areas have resulted in an overgrowth of wrong categories
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Protect the tiger
the World Wide Fund (wwf for Nature has declared 1998 as the year for the tiger. It has also chalked out plans to counter increasing cases of poaching and illegal trade in major tiger range
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Urban wildlife and disappearing commons
"What are we supposed to feel when a sarkari animal carries our children away? Are we still supposed to love the animal and the sarkar?" This plea by an activist working with poor people living in
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Choose or else...
The ecodevelopment project being implemented in Gir National Park has raked up a controversy on the issue of relocation of the native Maldhari community
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Flight to extinction
One in eight birds will vanish in the next 100 years, says a new report