India

 Gaps galore

This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the joint forest management (JFM) programme. The beginnings of this initiative can be dated to the early 1970s, when people had just begun

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Madhav Gadgil
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Protected Area Conservation, Economic Development, Unemployment, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha)
Natural Disasters

 Brazil

To conserve unprotected land as national parks and ecological reserves, Brazil recently cancelled thousands of false and undocumented land ownership claims in the Amazon region. The strictly

Publication Date: 
14/04/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, Brazil
Wildlife

Human-wildlife conflict: Identifying the problem and possible solutions

Crop raiding is a cause of much conflict between farmers and wildlife throughout the world. In Africa the great dependence of a large proportion of the human population for their survival on the land, coupled with the presence of many species of large mammal leads to many sources of conflict between people and wildlife.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2002
C. Hill, F. Osborn, A.J. Plumptre
Wildlife Conservation Society
Tags:
Farmers, Wildlife, Elephant, Protected Area Conservation, People - Animal Conflicts, Africa, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Mining

 CHINA

China will soon set up a reserve for the endangered Siberian tigers. Accor

Publication Date: 
14/10/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Endangered Species, Protected Area Conservation, Tiger Reserves, China, United States Of America (US)
Air Pollution

 ECUADOR

Rejecting the pleas of conservationists, the constitutional tribunal of Ecuador has taken a decision which would cause irreparable damage to the Mindo ecological reserve (see Down To Earth , Vol

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Architecture, Protected Area Conservation, Ecuador, Environmental Security
India

 High hopes

Conservation area projects in Nepal prove that people and protected areas need not be mutually exclusive

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Nepal, India
Transport

 Slipping out

Shell pulls out of the oil exploration venture in Pakistan s Kirthar National Park

Publication Date: 
14/06/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sind, Oil Exploration, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Pakistan
Industry

 CONSERVATION EFFORTS

The boundary of Kanchenjunga Conservation Area in Nepal is being expanded. This will make the whole belt of northeastern Nepal a protected area for flora and fauna. At present the area covers 1,650

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Fauna, Protected Area Conservation, Kanchanjunga, Nepal
Environment

Survival primer: Down to Earth special issue

This publication contains prominent articles collated from 200 issues of science and environment fortnightly, Down to Earth, from 1992 onwards.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2000
Anil Agarwal
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Environment, Environment Economics, River Pollution, Air Pollution, Forests, Traditional Water Harvesting, Global Environmental Agreements, Protected Area Conservation, Environment Education, Popular Movements, Biomass
Mining

 BRAZIL

The United Nations has announced a new biosphere reserve in Brazil's Pantanal region, the largest tropical wetland ecosystem in the world. The country's biologists are hoping that Pantanal's new

Publication Date: 
14/12/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecotourism, Protected Area Conservation, Aid, Brazil, Sustainable Development

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