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Wild and unprotected
Poachers and smugglers continue to snip through the tatty net of existing Indian wildlife protection laws
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Fishing in troubled waters
People displaced by a dam on the Tawa, the Narmada s biggest tributary, charted their own rehabilitation through exemplary management of natural resources
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Ghandi's ghost saves the Himalayan trees
From Kashmir to Burma, where tigers once lived amid lush forests, a vast tract of land has been laid bare by the timber industry. In its wake have come landslides, drought and yet further poverty. The
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Await the Indian Love Canal
WHEN will we see sincere efforts to introduce discipline in the disposal of industrial waste in India? If the official interventions in environmental management in India so far are any indication,
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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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Lost in transit
A gravy train called eco development, now derailed
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A fishy death
Skinning of animal creates a stink
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Ministries clash
PM keen to grant bill; change in tone of the conservationist
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Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua
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14 Years Later..
...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the safety of workers and the environment
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The enemy within
Indians will have to fight a war with themselves to protect their environment, society v and culture from the ravages of economic growth
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Growing fences
Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today
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Drying wetlands
Beyond the tigers of Sunderbans: A closer look at the leeches and the beautiful blue devil
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The magic of unity
The Saiga adivasis of Ghanneri village, living in Achanakmar sanctuary area of Bilaspur, have nothing but their undying spirit of struggle to fall back upon. Many at them, basods by profession
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Forest rights
Adivasis draft an alternative forest bill and a rehabilitation policy to safeguard India's forests
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Soft pedalling by the authorities
FOR THE first time in India's environmental history, a person was imprisoned for contempt of court in relation to the Sariska mining case. The Supreme Court-appointed committee had invited
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Putting colour into pelts
Scientists say a pair of genes are responsible for lending colour to animal furs.
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Conserve or pickle?
Eco development in India had no clue
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Courage under fire
SANCTUARY AWARDS . Sanctuary Magazine . ABN-Amro . India Sanctuary magazine and ABN-Amro bank have chosen four forest officers and a grassroots activist as Earth Heroes for this year's Sanctuary