Economy

 Break the chain

Ebola spreads from infected animal carcasses to humans

Publication Date: 
14/04/2004
Tanvi Mishra
Down to Earth
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Fauna
Biodiversity

 Invasive Alien Species

Think of an invasion, and the picture that comes to mind is usually that of planes and tanks, machines and men, shells and gunshots. But animal and plant species also run amok, especially when they enter an ecosystem where they didn t previously exist. Af

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
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Ecosystems, Soil Resources, Agriculture, Pest Control, WTO, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity, Invasive Alien Species, GATT, Research, Australia, New Zealand, India, Statistics
Climate Change

 Severe impact

Many species may become extinct due to global warming

Publication Date: 
14/02/2004
Down to Earth
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Climate Change, Global Warming, Endangered Species, Flora, Fauna, Global, Extinct Species
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
Ranjan Panda
Down to Earth
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Lakes, Chilka, Crustaceans, Fisheries, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Flora, Fauna, Legislation, High Court, Governance, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Environment

Fish curry and rice: a source book on Goa, its ecology and life-style

Fish curry and rice is designed to teach, to provoke and to stimulate people--young and old--not just to discover the astonishing beautives of Goa's diverse ecosystems, but to delight in its life-style as well.

Publication Date: 
Jan 2002
Claude Alvares, Vidyadhar Gadgil
The Goa Foundation
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Environment, Lifestyles, Ecosystems, Wetlands, Ecology, Mining, Sacred Groves, Flora, Fauna, Goa, Agriculture
Biodiversity

 Melting to extinction

Biodiversity in the UK threatened due to climate changes

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Down to Earth
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Climate Change, Global Warming, Droughts, Floods, Wildlife, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity
Biodiversity

 Colouring plants

Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
R V Singh
Down to Earth
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Animal Products, Chipko Movement, Architecture, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity, Economic Development, Environmental Science, Media, Education, NGO, Legends, Bihar
Environment

 Vicuna: a success story

One of the most successful cases of breeding and harvesting wild animals is that of the vicuna (Vicugna vicugna), native to the Andes of South America, prized for its wool. Conservation efforts in

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
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Fauna, Chile
Environment

 Ghana

A British zoologist has been banned from Ghana's Bui National Park, which will soon be flooded as a result of the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Black Volta river. "I was not allowed to

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
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Dams, Hydroelectricity, Flora, Fauna, National Parks, Ghana
India

 Mini Nilgiri reserve

a biosphere reserve on the lines of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve ( nbr ) is being developed at Anaikatti, 35 km from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The Coimba

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nilgiri, Flora, Fauna, Biosphere Reserves, Tamil Nadu

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