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Dachigam Park opens for nature lovers

SRINAGAR, Sept 8: Minister for Forest and Environment Mian Altaf Ahmed today declared Dachigam National Park open for nature lovers and adventure skits interested in mountain cycling.

Publication Date: 
09/09/2011
Kashmir Times (Jammu)
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Dachigam NP, Wildlife, Ecotourism, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Biodiversity
Fisheries

Fish farms less harmful than thought

Coastal fish farms seem to do less harm to nearby plants and animals than previously believed, a new study reveals. And marine ecosystems can recover from this damage surprisingly fast.

Publication Date: 
08/09/2011
Environment News Network
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Fisheries, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Water Pollution, Marine Ecosystems, Environment, Biomass
Biodiversity

Ecosystem services in conservation planning: Targeted benefits vs. co-benefits or costs?

There is growing support for characterizing ecosystem services in order to link conservation and human well-being. However, few studies have explicitly included ecosystem services within systematic conservation planning, and those that have follow two fundamentally different approaches: ecosystem services as intrinsically-important targeted benefits vs. substitutable co-benefits. We present a first comparison of these two approaches in a case study in the Central Interior of British Columbia.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2011
Kai M. A. Chan, Lara Hoshizaki, Brian Klinkenberg
PLoS ONE
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Ecosystem Services, Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Canada, Fisheries, Forests, Biodiversity Conservation, Benefit Sharing
Forests

Change of power plant site sought to protect Sundarban

Rights actyivists on Monday urged the government to change the site of the proposed coal-based power plant from Rampal upazila in Bagerhat district to elsewhere to save the biodiversity of Sundarba

Publication Date: 
06/09/2011
New Age (Bangladesh)
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Bangladesh, Thermal Power Plants, Energy, Forests, Sundarbans, Environment, Biodiversity
Forests

Rising salinity threatens Sundarban

Decreasing flow of water through the rivers from upstream is destroying the ecosystem of Sundarban.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2011
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Bangladesh, Forests, Sundarbans, Salinity, Ecosystems, Fauna, Ganga, Brahmaputra, India, UNESCO, Water Resources, World Bank, Biodiversity, Environment
Biodiversity

Pollution causing extinction of rare fish

Several varieties of fresh water fish that live on streams, oyas and rivers in Sri Lanka are in the verge of extinction due to water pollution and selling them to foreign tourists.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2011
Daily News (Sri Lanka)
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Sri Lanka, Fish Biodiversity, Fish, Water Pollution, Pesticides, Agriculture
Forests

New plan to restore 150 million hectares of forest

Conservationists and politicians meeting in Bonn on Friday launched a new initiative to restore 150 million hectares (580,000 square miles) of deforested and degraded forests, reports the World Res

Publication Date: 
03/09/2011
Environment News Network
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Economic Development, Climate Change, Forests, Forest Conservation, Biodiversity
Environment

Green economy for sustainable mountain development: a concept paper for Rio+20 and beyond

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD or Rio+20) to be held in June 2012 will have green economy as one of its two main themes. This paper has been prepared to strengthen arguments for discussing mountain issues at Rio+20 and in other global discourses.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
ICIMOD
Tags:
Sustainable Development, Mountains, Mountain Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, South Asia, India, Poverty, Food Security, Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Biodiversity, Water Management
Environment

A review of environmental issues in the context of biofuel sustainability frameworks

With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting this expansion, concerns about the biofuel sector’s environmental and social impacts are increasing.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Manuel R. Guariguata, Omar R. Masera, Francis X. Johnson, & et al
Center for International Forestry Research
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Biofuel, Environment, Renewable Energy, European Union (EU), India, Land Use, Biodiversity, Green House Gases, Sugarcane, Palm Oil
Climate Change

Madhya Pradesh state action plan on climate change: draft

The Government of Madhya Pradesh has drafted this State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC), in which it envisages to factor in climate change concerns in its developmental planning and chartering a path of low carbon development.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2011
Government of Madhya Pradesh
Tags:
Climate Change, Madhya Pradesh, Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation, Forests, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Health Effects, Water Supply, Urban Development, Rural Development, Transport, Renewable Energy, Energy, Industry, Environment

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