Endangered Species

CORBETT HIGHWAY

Acting on an affidavit filed by the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) and the Corbett Foundation against a proposed highway through Corbett Tiger Reserve, the Supreme Court (SC) recently

Publication Date:

27/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Deforestation, Endangered Species, Corbett NP, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Biodiversity

Rich bias

IS THE world's environment really in crisisor is thecrisis simply in the imagination of environmental groupsresearchers andthe media? In The Skeptical EnvironmentalistBj

Publication Date:

14/02/2002

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020215

pp:

0

Tags:

Air Pollution, Water Management, Water Demand, Climate Change, Global Warming, Endangered Species, Kyoto Protocol, Biodiversity, Subsidies, Environmental Science, Research, Global, Developing Countries, Environment Management

Air Pollution

Riverine fisherfolk, arguably the oldest among traders, are being sold down the river. An unholy synergy of poisoned rivers, government apathy and commercial interests has scripted the epitaph of the original stewards of the river. Ironically, their

Publication Date:

14/02/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020215

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Rivers, Aquaculture, Fish Poisoning, Chipko Movement, Endangered Species, Fisherfolk, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Governance, Bihar, Kerala, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Fish Marketing

India

Burden of beast

Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Author(s): R V Singh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

10

Issue:

20020131

pp:

0

Tags:

Animal Care, Animal Breeding, Animal Feed, Animal Diseases, Camel, Endangered Species, Transport, Africa, India, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Food Security

India

Adrift and Isolated

A proposed blanket ban on scientific prawn culture in Chilika lake is a total let down for the fiskerfolk

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Author(s): Ranjan Panda

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Lakes, Chilka, Crustaceans, Fisheries, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Flora, Fauna, Legislation, High Court, Governance, India, Orissa (Odisha)

India

Trawlers turn killers

rampant unregulated fishing has caused the death of many endangered sea

Publication Date:

30/01/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Fisheries, Endangered Species, India, Orissa (Odisha)

Water Pollution

KENYA

A fortnight after poachers killed four endangered black rhinos in southeastern Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service (kws) claimed that it had arrested one person in possession

Publication Date:

14/01/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Endangered Species, Rhinoceros, Poaching, Africa, Kenya

India

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

A 16-millimetre lizard, Jaragua Sphaero or dwarf gecko

Publication Date:

14/01/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Endangered Species, Reptiles, Research, Dominican Rep

Health

Two can make a difference!

Saving just two female northern right whales a year could halt the decline of the species. Female right whales are by far the most vulnerable among the species, shows an analysis of over 10,000

Publication Date:

14/01/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Whales, Endangered Species, United States Of America (US)

Fisheries