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 Endangered!

THE endangered lion-tailed macaque has become the mascot of the environmental agitation against the Sharavathy Tail Race Hydroelectric Project in Karnataka. Concerned about its negative impact on

Publication Date: 
14/05/1994
Down to Earth
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Hydroelectricity, Biodiversity, India, Karnataka
Biodiversity

 Free trade has no colour bar

OVERTURNING age-old fears, free trade is now being seen as the market miracle that will bail out the earth from the environmental mess it finds itself in; free trade is expected to bring about the

Publication Date: 
30/04/1994
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Tropical Forests, Biodiversity, GATT
India

 Contacts with young minds

Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
Sudeep Mukhia
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Children, Biodiversity, Education, India
India

 Eager to achieve

MANOJ Kumar, the son of a brick kiln worker, shows the perspicacity of one much older than his 14 years. He not only won both the biodiversity competitions held at Gangagarh, he also topped his class. Manoj spoke to Down To Earth about his motivations and

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
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Children, Biodiversity, Education, India
India

 Bird lovers in the dock

The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has been charged with disturbing the flora and fauna in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Goregaon near the Film City for a proposed conservation education

Publication Date: 
14/04/1994
Down to Earth
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Sanjay NP, Biodiversity, India, Maharashtra, Bombay
Forests

 Fears haunt forestry project

A plan to protect the biodiversity of Thailand's forests ignores the needs of forest dwellers

Publication Date: 
30/03/1994
Noel Rajesh
Down to Earth
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Forests, Forest Villages, Biodiversity, Thailand
Biodiversity

 Where have all the people gone?

The ministry of environment and forests" plan to conserve biodiversity excludes the people.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Forest Resources, Biodiversity
Biodiversity

 The past catches up with the present

A custom of community forest protection, started in 1832 by the Raja of Alwar, is making a comeback

Publication Date: 
14/03/1994
Sudeep Mukhia
Down to Earth
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Forest Management, Biodiversity, Rajasthan
Biodiversity

 Convention ratified

THE CONVENTION on biological diversity, which was signed by 167 nations, came into force on December 29, 1993, with only 37 countries having ratified it. Many countries that have signed are in the

Publication Date: 
14/02/1994
Down to Earth
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity

 Relics of reason

SUSTAINABLILITY has both its preachers and practitioners. Despite their intellectual self-righteousness, biodiversity conservation promoted by the first group is still largely informed by an economic

Publication Date: 
30/01/1994
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