For a common environmental ethic
Let s understand that species have both aesthetic and utilitarian values
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We can't regard forests as something without human presence
RUBENS RICUPERO, 57, Brazil's suave and diplomatic minister for environment, has an unenviable job: charting the destiny of the beleaguered Amazonian rainforests, the source of over 50 per cent of the planet's oxygen. In India recently to discuss environm
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Where have all the people gone?
The ministry of environment and forests" plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.
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Sankosh soothsayings
The new Indo Bhutan hydel project on the sankosh river may turn out to be an environmental disaster, feels a green agency
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WORKING IN ISOLATION
A mutual lack of trust and understanding between forest officials and wildlife scientists may be responsible for the mismanagement of India s protected areas
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Footprints of the wild
Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on wildlife and environment, some targeting children.
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Fears haunt forestry project
A plan to protect the biodiversity of Thailand's forests ignores the needs of forest dwellers
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Struggle for existence
Large scale habitat loss and massive encroachment of the forestland have escalated the instances of wildlife human conflict in recent times
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The not so evident truth about R & D
Research by private companies has not grown in proportion with economic liberalisation because of a lack of innovative character.
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No headlines, no rehabilitation
Oustees of the Kutku and Auranga dams in Bihar complain media attention is the only way of getting justice from the government, but the media devotes its ink only to big money projects
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Give more power to local bodies
IT IS indeed unfortunate that the two Constitutional amendment bills to strengthen Panchayati Raj institutions and urban municipalities have received little public attention. Political
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If nothing is done, we fisherfolk will perish
Bhajani Behera of Arakhakuda village, feels the lake is doomed unless the government mounts rescue operations quickly. He should know, because he has spent 65 years of his life fishing in the lake for a living.
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Poetry born of struggle
Whether the revolutionary passion of his early verse, or the more mellow vision of his later work, Jnanpith award winner Subhas Mukhopadhyay's poetry inspired an entire generation
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Taken for a ride
Consumer consciousness has yet to make a dent in the mind of the average Indian buyer. That consumer is the king has remained merely a slogan of the consumer movement activists
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Breach of trust
This is not a story about floods in Bihar. This is a story about how an entire society has been corrupted by money meant to build embankments for flood control. A lesson that poor environmental management, especially one which emphasises construction, le
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The closing of the gates
A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people
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Caught between boars and bureaucracy
Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, volleyball and television sets.
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Cut it out
A critique of recent suggestions to hack tusks, horns and other poachers' delights to save endangered animals.
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For a few dollars more
The environment ministry is belatedly setting priorities right for procuring GEF's green bundles
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Reserve power
The slaughter of Sariska effectively portrays the determination of the local people to halt the devastation wrought by mines.