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Biodiversity

 Ecological ultras

Ecologist N V C Polunin argues that protected areas are an extreme form of conservation, and that other forms of regulated area management may be more appropriate for the management needs of local

Publication Date: 
30/12/1995
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Ecosystems, Forests, Biodiversity
Biodiversity

 Our wilds, their homes

City based perceptions of forest areas have resulted in an overgrowth of wrong categories

Publication Date: 
30/12/1995
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Forests

 Regeneration on reels

K Bikram Singh will soon be relating another tale about the regeneration of barren land in his new film. He has earlier made two films on the same subject: Rebirth and Jhilmil.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1995
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Forests, Land Use, Madhya Pradesh
Environment

 FOR THE FORESTS

The Sri Lankan forestry industry is in for a massive improvement with tIle Asian Development Bank approving a $60 million loan and $400,000 technical assistance granrecently. The grants will help

Publication Date: 
30/12/1995
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Forests, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Sri Lanka
Forests

 Anguish!

A shaman delves into the glorious past and predicts a deathly future

Publication Date: 
14/12/1995
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Forests, Gold, Amazon, Tribals, Brazil
Forests

 Tiger tale

Film director Ashish Chandol was in Bandhavgarh with his camera to capture the natural history of the dense forests of Madhya Pradesh. What he found difficult to ignore were the

Publication Date: 
14/12/1995
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Forests

 Gold plated genocide

The third gold rush is threatening to relic the last of Amazon's indigenous people

Publication Date: 
14/12/1995
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Forests, Gold, Amazon, Tribals, Brazil
India

 INDIA

Aquatic weeds need no longer be just a nuisance. Kaiser Jamil, a scientist from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, reports that weeds such as water hyacinth can remove toxic

Publication Date: 
29/11/1995
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Forests, Dams, Drought, Kerala
Forests

 Logging for growth

THE Swedes, known to have a scalpedearth policy for a long time, have now come up with a ecologically sound way of logging which is also profitable. Earlier, the woodcutters used to bare almost

Publication Date: 
30/10/1995
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Forests, Forest Conservation, Sweden
Forests

 Plantation proposal

The special committee of ministejrs appointed to take care of the Ministry of environment and forests' (MEF) proposal to provide 2.5 million hectares of degraded forest lands to the paper

Publication Date: 
29/09/1995
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Forests, Industrial Forests, Government Of India (GOI)

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