Water Pollution

 Zimbabwe to cull elephants to check their growth

Zimbabwe has announced plans for culling and contraception to slow down rampant elephant population growth. The announcement comes close to a recent incident in which a rogue elephant trampled to

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Elephant, National Parks, Africa, Zimbabwe
India

 No let up in human animal conflict in Bhitarakanika National Park

The Oriya name for the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is baula kumbhira, which literally means crazy crocodile. The moniker certainly rings true for people living in about 50 villages

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Ashutosh Mishra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Conflicts, Compensation, Crocodiles, National Parks, Unemployment, Life Science, India, Orissa (Odisha)
Environment

 Why not fishing?

Precedent for activities allowed inside protected areas >> Supreme Court (SC) permitted Power Grid Corporation of India to lay a transmission line in Rajaji National Park, Uttaranchal. The order

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Deforestation, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Sanctuaries, Supreme Court, India
Wildlife

Protection, development, maintenance and research in biosphere reserves in India

The idea of 'Biosphere Reserves’ was initiated by UNESCO in 1973-74 under its Man and Biosphere (MAB) Programme.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Tags:
National Parks, Sanctuaries, Biosphere Reserves, India
India

 Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

Kenya's Ogiek tribal people, one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in east Africa, have joined Botswana's San people (or Bushmen) in their fight against the government to allow them return to

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Down to Earth
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Land Ownership, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Tourism, Botswana, Kenya
Wildlife

Tiger human conflicts: Investigating ecological and sociological issues of tiger conservation in the buffer zone of Chitwan NP

Historically, there was contiguous forest all across the terai region of Nepal and tigers were distributed in high densities. The situation changed during early 1960s because the tiger habitat in the terai was drastically reduced as a result of human resettlement program. The destruction of habitat and fragmentation lead to the sharp decline in tiger population.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2006
Bhim Gurung, J. L. David Smith, Charles McDougal & et al
WWF International
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, National Parks, Tiger Conservation, Poaching, People - Animal Conflicts, Nepal
Environment

 Ivory trade

At least one hundred dead elephants were spotted on the border of Chad's Zakouma National Park in the last week of August. Poachers hacked off the animals' heads to remove tusks and left the

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Elephant, National Parks, Poaching, Chad
India

 Reference guide on the national parks and sanctuaries in Maharashtra

National Parks and Sanctuaries in Maharashtra. Reference Guide. Volume I and II

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
Ghazala Shahabuddin
Down to Earth
Tags:
National Parks, Sanctuaries, Biodiversity Conservation, India, Maharashtra
Mining

 Freeport, the polluter

Rivers, estuaries and a national park, which is a world heritage site, in the West Papua province of Indonesia are being polluted by mining in the area, says the mining company's own risk-assessment

Publication Date: 
14/06/2006
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Pollution, Mining, Rivers, National Parks
Mining

 Cuba's polluting sugar refining complex

An industrial sugar-refining complex in the Cuban province of Matanzas has been blamed for underground build-up of methane gas and other environment violations. A government news daily reported

Publication Date: 
14/06/2006
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Pollution, Mining, Rivers, National Parks

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