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
Tags:
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
Tags:
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
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Droughts, Floods, Wildlife, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity
India

 Growing fences

Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Zarine Cooper
Down to Earth
10
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Tags:
Agriculture, Rice, Mushroom, Rivers, Indravati, Fisheries, Fish Marketing, Forest Products, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Flora, India, Chhattisgarh, Bastar, Naxalites
Fisheries

 Chemical protectors

Flowers chemical compounds shield the plants from herbivorous insects

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Flora, Insects, Life Science, Environmental Science
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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Tags:
Animal Products, Chipko Movement, Architecture, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity, Economic Development, Environmental Science, Media, Education, NGO, Legends, Bihar
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
Tags:
Dams, Hydroelectricity, Flora, Fauna, National Parks, Ghana
India

 Birds of a feather

This book was initiated in 1989 and went into incubation for 11 long years. Over all, the book is good but has its share of imperfections. It successfully highlights the important relationship of

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Asad R Rahmani
Down to Earth
9
20010515
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Tags:
Ecosystems, Plant Breeding, Flora, Birds, Genetic Resources, India
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
Transport

 MALAYSIA

The Malaysian government has decided to revive the construction of the Bakun dam. Environmen

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Dams, Tropical Forests, Deforestation, Flora, Fauna, Malaysia

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