India

 How to avert disasters

Orissa cyclone death toll was higher due to the destruction of mangrove forests

Publication Date: 
14/05/2000
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Mangroves, Forest Conservation, Natural Disasters, Cyclones, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Orissa (Odisha)
India

 INDIA

The Andhra Pradesh government has given an assurance that the interests of the small farmers and the landless poor will not be ignored during the distribution of 35 lakh hectares of degraded forest

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
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Tags:
Mangroves, Andhra Pradesh
Climate Change

 Treeless forest

How shrimp cultivation turned a mangrove forest into a saline desert

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Deserts, Mangroves, Crustaceans, Aquaculture, Deforestation, Aid, Environmental Science, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh
Wildlife

 OIL SPILL

Pakistan federal minister

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Tags:
Pollution Control, Oil Pollution, Marine Life, Mangroves, Pakistan
India

 Plea to save Kutch

the Forum for Planned Industrialisation of Kutch has written to the Gujarat

Publication Date: 
29/09/1999
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Mangroves, Corals, Gujarat, Kuchchh
Air Pollution

 Humans vs mangrove

The estuary at the mouth of Ashtamudi lake in Kollam district of Kerala was once famous for its mangroves. Today, after more than three decades of wilful destruction, all that remains of the

Publication Date: 
14/08/1999
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Mangroves, Endangered Species, Kerala
Animal Care

 Creating panic

the Gujarat government's move to

Publication Date: 
30/05/1999
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Marine Life, Mangroves, Coastal Erosion, Cement Industry, Government Of India (GOI), Gujarat
Biodiversity

 MANGROVE PARK

The Sri Lanka government plans to establish a Mangrove Park, the first of its kind in Sri Lanka, to promote conservation of mangrove forests in the country. The 10-hectare park is to be situated

Publication Date: 
30/03/1999
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Tags:
Mangroves, Forest Conservation, Sri Lanka
Water Pollution

 Threat from eco tourism

sight-seeing boats are threatening

Publication Date: 
27/02/1999
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Tags:
Ecotourism, Mangroves, Japan
India

 To save a forest

THE ecosystem of the world's largest mangrove, the Sundarbans in West Bengal, was falling apart until local forest authorities took up conservation projects to educate the locals and wean them away

Publication Date: 
14/10/1998
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Tags:
Sundarban NP, Mangroves, Forest Conservation, West Bengal

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