Butterflies on the brink
unscrupulous poaching and smuggling have now virtually rendered extinct rare and beautiful butterflies endemic to the forests of Kerala. Officials of traffic -India, an association working
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Timely, but incoherent
In Search Of Sustainable Livelihood Systems: Managing Resources and Change
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Fishing embargo
Kerala protests SC s ban
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Mapping Kerala s forests
the Kerala Forest Research Institute ( kfri ) has decided to launch an ambitious project to prepare an atlas of forests in the state using remote-sensing satellites. It is said to be the
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Fishy ban
the Kerala government has banned the operation of fishing trawlers in the Arabian coast. The ban has become effective for 45 days starting from June 1, 1998. However, the fishermen have expressed
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Tahr breeding season
with the advent of the breeding season, the blue hills of Munnar in Kerala are once again alive with frolicking calves of nilgiri tahr. The first birth of a tahr calf was registered on
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Protecting bioresources
the Kerala government is putting together an anti-biopiracy plan to protect its resources from the "onslaught of foreign firms.' The Peechi-based Kerala Forest Research Institute (kfri), under
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More on fish please
www.keralafishworkers.org The world is getting serious about its dwindling marine resources. There is a large amount of frightening data on it. But hardly do these touch the fisherfolk
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IN A SHAMBLES
<i>Decline of the Kerala PDS</i> <br><br> Until a decade ago, owning a ration shop in Kerala was a status symbol. Abdul Rehman, a retail ration dealer for more than two decades, always enjoyed a special status in Ambayathode village of Kozhikode district, with over 1,700 ration card holders on his roll. Rehman was one of the 14,236 retail dealers who catered to close to 91 per cent of the state population in a model public distribution system. According to government officials, there was one ration outlet within two km radius of every household. But that was then.<br>
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INDIA
Aquatic weeds need no longer be just a nuisance. Kaiser Jamil, a scientist from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, reports that weeds such as water hyacinth can remove toxic
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Promised land
Kerala CM upbeat about forestland for tribals scheme
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Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane
a people's Right Declaration Convention held on September 17, 2006, at Eloor
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Ethnographical account by a forest officer
Forests officers writing about conservation issues is nothing unusual. However, rarely does a forest officer write ethnographical accounts. C K Karunakaran, former chief conservator of forests,
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Organic route
cashew farmers in Kerala are a hapless lot. They are dogged by the falling prices of their produce and stiff competition caused by the wto regime. However, there is hope in going organic.
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Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala
The Kerala Planning Board, for the first time, has taken up
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Future is bleak
<img src="files/images/20070415/28_1.jpg" ="chairman wge" align="left"/><b>What led to the constitution of a Working Group on Environment (WGE)?</b> <br> The planning board wanted to move with the times. The Kerala government had a science and technology and environment department since 1987. But the V S Achutanandan government has made environment an independent department. Since the government wanted a roadmap for the functioning of the department, the WGE had to be set up. <br>
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Crowded out
Human threat to biodiversity
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Costs and benefits of India's waste disposal options
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Centre melts
Relief to pour in Kerala
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Hasty rollback
Kerala government stays sand mining permission