Wildlife

 Uncertain future

Villages in the sanctuary

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Personnel, Bamboo, Tribals, Wildlife, Tiger, Sanctuaries, Melghat SA, Tiger Reserves, Legislation, Maharashtra
India

 High and dry

Conservation cannot ignore pastoral rights

Publication Date: 
30/07/2005
Ilse Kohler-rollefson
Down to Earth
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Grazing Lands, Pastoral Nomads, Tribals, Wildlife, Tiger, Ranthambore NP, Sariska NP, Biodiversity, India, Rajasthan
Mining

 Mine by proxy

SC/ST, OBC groups swindled out of their mining leases

Publication Date: 
14/07/2005
Kushal P S Yadav
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Tribals, Legislation, Rajasthan
India

 BIG CAT CONUNDRUM

The tiger occupies a hallowed seat in India. Ecologists believe that millions of small ecological processes live out their routine lives under its majestic awn. But the picture gets muddled with the entry of another god: the human. The tiger has to now co

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecology, Animal Cruelty, Forest Villages, Tribals, Wildlife, Rajaji NP, Poaching, Legislation, India
Forests

 The Urban Dwellers Rights to Forest Lands and Resources Bill 2005

A BILL To recognise and vest rights to forest lands, and lands/waters and resources of other ecosystems, in urban dwellers, in recognition of their essential needs to maintain and enhance their

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Urban Habitat, Tribals, Legislation
Forests

 Off the logs

Illegal logging has reached the hitherto uncontacted Jururei tribe in the Amazon forests of Brazil. The tribe has only eight to 10 members. It is the second "uncontacted' indigenous group in the area

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forests, Amazon, Deforestation, Tribals, Brazil
Forests

 Long overdue

Major tenets of the bill

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Policy, Forest Conservation, Forest Act 1980, Tribals, Biodiversity Conservation, Public Participation
Wildlife

 Rhinos can live with tribals

The concept of national parks

Publication Date: 
27/02/2005
UJJAL KUMAR SARMA
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Villages, Tribals, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Kaziranga SA, Wildlife And People
Environment

 Neo liberal verbiage

The draft National Environment Policy is replete with numerous contradictions and flaws

Publication Date: 
14/01/2005
Ajit Menon, Sharachandra Lele
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Tribals, Biodiversity, Groundwater
India

 Illicit Staple

Ritual offering, survival food, index of sophistication: what s pagan about northeast India s penchant for wild meat?

Publication Date: 
14/01/2005
Hilaluddin
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Animal Products, Tribals, Religious Beliefs, Wildlife, Governance, India, Arunachal

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