India

 INTERVIEW: PAWAN KUMAR CHAMLING

"NGOs have the most important role to play"

Publication Date: 
14/02/1999
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Pollution Control, Integrated Pest management (IPM), Afforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Sikkim
India

 'No plastic bags, no landslides

Seventy-year-old Aitamai has lived in Sichey Basti on the outskirts of Gangtok for over 40 years now. "But I have never seen such a bad landslide," she says, referring to the one that

Publication Date: 
14/02/1999
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Pollution Control, Integrated Pest management (IPM), Afforestation, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Sikkim
Industry

 Bhotiya's show the way

Bhotiyas are a pastoral-migratory community, inhabiting the high alti - tudes of Uttar Pradesh and Sikkim. Bhotiyas spend the winter in the foothills and migrate to the high hills during the summer.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1998
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Trade, Pastoral Nomads, Medicinal Plants, Rural Technology, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh
Biodiversity

 Beauty and biology: the Shangri-La

Sikkim, a place of great natural beauty, has been neglected by botanists and zoologists. While there is apprehension that many species have already become extinct or endangered, little is being done to conserve its biodiversity

Publication Date: 
29/06/1998
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Endangered Species, Flora, Fauna, Tourism, Biodiversity, Sikkim, Extinct Species
Biodiversity

 Averting disaster

Software will help landslide management in Sikkim

Publication Date: 
14/04/1998
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Tags:
Landslides, Information, Sikkim, Computers
India

 Himalayan plunder

Tourism has wreaked havoc on Sikkim s natural resources

Publication Date: 
14/11/1997
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Himalaya, Deforestation, Tourism, Sikkim
Air Pollution

  Divine intervention

The Sikkim government has decided to scrap the Chu hydel project

Publication Date: 
29/09/1997
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Tags:
Hydroelectricity, Sikkim
India

 Blind carnage

YET another instance of mindless destruction of forests: a pine forest, specially grown at a cost of Rs 10 lakh a decade ago, will be razed to make way for a VIP, complex close to the Raj Bhawan

Publication Date: 
28/02/1996
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Tags:
Deforestation, Trees, Pine, India, Sikkim
Environment

 Villain turns hero

Danny Denzongpa, who acted the villain in countless Hindi films, is playing a hero in real life. He is gathering support for a group called the Concerned Citizens of Sikkim. The group is

Publication Date: 
30/08/1995
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Hydroelectricity, Sikkim
Environment

 Damned bodyblow

The proposed Rathong Chu dam in Sikkim is a potential threat to the state"s environment

Publication Date: 
30/08/1995
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Tags:
Environment, Dams, Sikkim

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