Forest Conservation

Money or trees? Ghana s dilemma

Money or trees is the choice before the Ghanaian government. The administration is agonising over whether to take the $2 billion offered by mining companies or preserve the forests where they seek to

Publication Date:

27/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030228

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Forest Conservation, Ghana, Mining

Air Pollution

Devolution has to happen. It will

It has been a year since Anil Agarwal, the founder editor of Down To Earth, passed away. We remember him every moment. We work as his proxies. We work his dreams; they have become ours, too. His

Publication Date:

30/01/2003

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030131

pp:

17

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1988, Economy, Biomass, Biomass Trade, Poverty, Anil Agarwal, Sustainable Development, Environment Management

Solid Waste

Beyond the odds

Kashmiri youth reach out to people in the midst of war and loss with their environmental awareness campaign

Publication Date:

29/11/2002

Author(s): Ishfaq-ul-hassan

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021130

pp:

0

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Solid Waste, Plastics, NGO, Jammu & Kashmir

Climate Change

Of forests and wealth

The Supreme Court has sug gested that the forested states, which lose revenue because of the ban on felling of trees should be compensated for keeping their forests intact. Protection of the

Publication Date:

30/07/2002

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020731

pp:

5

Tags:

Forest Management, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Deforestation, Forest Products, Wood, Tribals, Compensation, Biodiversity, Finance, Legislation, Supreme Court, India, Bastar, Madhya Pradesh

Forests

Threats to forests

A new study warns that if timber harvest continues unchecked in the Mexican cloud belt forests, millions of monarch butterflies who spend their winter there would face imminent threat in the coming

Publication Date:

14/05/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forests, Forest Conservation, Research

Biodiversity

Peru

Going Green Pays The us has agreed to cancel a portion of Peruvian debt

Publication Date:

29/04/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Biodiversity, Finance, United States Of America (US), Peru

Biodiversity

UNITED NATIONS

International forests conservation activities should target 15 countries that have the best prospects for continued existence of their green cover, states a recent report of the UN Environment

Publication Date:

14/09/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Forest Conservation, Biodiversity, UN, UNEP

Forests