Wildlife

 Problems behind the pugmarks

Translocating some lions from Gujarat's Gir sanctuary the home of the endangered Asiatic lion to the Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh to save the big cat could mean people trouble. The forest dwellers in both areas sense that their lives wi

Publication Date: 
27/02/1995
Rimjhim Jain
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Displacement, Wildlife, Lion, Gir NP, Cement Industry, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation through ecodevelopment

This indicative plan has based on the work of field/park directors and their colleagues in the eight protected areas, and of various non-governmental organisations involved in carrying out PRA in the proposed project area.

Publication Date: 
Oct 1994
Indian Institute of Public Administration
Tags:
Pench TR, Gir NP, Palamau NP, Periyar NP, Ranthambore NP, Simlipal NP, Buxa SA, Nagarahole NP, Biodiversity, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, West Bengal
Environment

 The contours of repression

The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project

Publication Date: 
30/05/1994
Max Martin
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Narmada Valley Project, Government Of India (GOI), Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

Brief note on Pench tiger reserve, Seoni

The Pench tiger reserve is named after the Pench river which flows from north to south through the park. This river constitutes the district boundary of Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in the upper region and state boundry with Maharashtra state in the lower region. This area became the 29th tiger reserve of India in 1992.

Publication Date: 
Jan 1994
Tags:
Pench TR, Tiger, Tiger Reserves, Madhya Pradesh, Chhindwara (D), Seoni (D)
India

 Journey to save a river

The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has started a 1,300-km yatra (journey) "to bind the valley together" against "destructive development". The yatra is an important step in the NBA's effort to augment

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Narmada Valley Project, Development, Rural Habitat, Madhya Pradesh
Energy

 Solar power is the only viable alternative

K R DATYE has been associated for years with grassroots organisations such as the Pani Panchayat and the Mukti Sangharsh, which has spearheaded struggles for equal water distribution and peasant-built small dams in Maharashtra"s Sangli district. An engine

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
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Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Energy, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
India

 Rising against liquor

The people of Bhansoj, 50 km from the district headquarters town of Raipur in Madhya Pradesh, are up in arms against liquor, and achieving results. Until last year, Bhansoj was notorious for severe

Publication Date: 
30/05/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Alcoholism, Public Participation, India, Madhya Pradesh
Wildlife

Status of forest villages relocated from Kanha national park - a case study

Kanha national park falls in the Balaghat and Mandla districts of Madhya Pradesh. Located in the Maikal ranges of the Satpuras, the park is internationally renowned forits rich floral and faunal attributes.

Publication Date: 
Jan 1993
Rajesh Gopal, Ram Prasad, L. K. Choudhary
Tags:
Forest Villages, Wildlife, Kanha NP, Madhya Pradesh
India

 Another extension

The Union ministry of environment and forests has once again extended for 30 days the deadline for enforcing the controversial draft notification under the Environment Protection Act (EPA), 1986.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, India, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
India

 Naked truths

The public humiliation of B D Sharma, social activist and former Commissioner of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, has stirred up a hornet's nest. "It has come as a shock to all of us... But

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tribals, Human Rights, Public Participation, India, Madhya Pradesh

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