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Report of the committee on prevention of illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products

Ministry of Environment and Forests constituted on May 24, 1994, a committee to look into the issues relating to illegal trade in wildlife species. The committee was requested to look into the issues related to the illegal trade in wildlife and suggest ways and means to improve the existing control measures.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1993
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
Hides And Skins, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Exports, Imports, India
India

 And miles to go before we meet

The North-South divide is not a fabrication: for three-fourths of the world, it is a fact of daily existence. Ignoring it will not make it disappear but only exacerbate the wounds.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
William Moomaw
Down to Earth
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19931231
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Tags:
Rio Summit, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries
India

 Science cannot be a minion to wealth

A journalist without the pretensions of a scientist that's how JOHN MADDOX, editor of Nature for 15 years, would like to see himself. On his recent tour of India, Maddox talked to SUMANTA PAL on what went wrong with science and scientific establishment

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
2
19931231
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Tags:
Nuclear Power, Science, Research, War, Europe
India

 Promoting integrated village planning

Self sustaining rural communities could be India's answer to her disrupted ecosystem.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Suchitra Jain
Down to Earth
Tags:
Biomass, Rural Development, Sustainable Development
India

 A way out for India

Indian fridge manufacturers are juggling their options for a substitute for ozone-depleting substances and some are looking at a revived technology that will no longer make them dependent on Western companies.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Green Products, Ozone Layer, Global Warming, Europe, India
India

 The best of Indian science

In this and the following issue, DOWN TO EARTH presents a review of India's ten best scientific research projects. The selection is based on the opinions of eminent scientists from reputed institutions. Unravelling the mysteries of the cosmos through stat

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Nuclear Power, Drugs, Vaccination, Leprosy, India
India

 Panchayat reigns supreme

The Vaddis are the dominating community in Kolleru's fishing villages. They have a tightly controlled form of self governance that ensures equitable distribution of income

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
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19931231
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Tags:
Lake Pollution, Land Reclamation, Lakes, Birds, Migratory Species, Poaching, India
India

 The dollar conscious producers

Two firms in Tamil Nadu show the way to exporting organically produced foodstuff.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
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19931231
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Tags:
Organic Farming, Food Process Industry, Solar Dryers, Exports, Tamil Nadu
India

 People's interest in forests is sacrosanct

IT WAS nearly a decade ago that the government of India had tried to revise the Indian Forest Act of 1927, a British legacy that brought immense misery to forest-dwellers and has been unable to save

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
2
19931231
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Tags:
Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1927, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Legislation
India

 Seed to flower

Claiming their own, villagers of Seed in Rajasthan have blazed a path to eco sustainable resource use.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Biomass, Rural Development, Sustainable Development

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