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 Supreme Court says yes to road through sanctuary near Uttarakhand

the Supreme Court (sc) gave the green light to construct a road through a wildlife sanctuary near Uttarakhand's border with Nepal and China on March 16, 2007. This comes after the Uttarakhand

Publication Date: 
29/04/2007
Kirtiman Awasthi
Down to Earth
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Roads, Rajaji NP, Sanctuaries, Supreme Court, China, Nepal, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Pithoragarh (D)
India

 Uttarakhand tribal community bound to bonded labour

Kundan Lal and his master struck a deal. Lal, the master agreed, could go home to see his ailing wife in Dehradun's Bhatad village. In exchange, he demanded the services of Lal's son and

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Archi Rastogi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tribals, Landless, Bonded Labour, Rehabilitation, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Dehradun (D), Debt
Wildlife

The Jumbo Job

An escalating human-tusker conflict has forced the state Government to urgently re-work its elephant corridor project

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Kansrau-Barkot Corridor: 2.5 x 2 km. Will connect Dehradun forest division and Rajaji National Park.

Publication Date: 
12/03/2007
Subhash Mishra
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Wildlife, Elephant, Rajaji NP, People - Animal Conflicts, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Wildlife

 Tiger terror in Terai

FEAR stalks people in Chanda Bhudaria village in Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar district. A tigress attacked Jagannath Singh, when he went to defecate on the dusk of January 15, 2007. Jaggannath,

Publication Date: 
14/02/2007
Archi Rastogi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Conflicts, Compensation, Wildlife, Leopard, Tiger, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
India

 Tracing the origin and recharge zones of Himalayan springs

people from Uttaranchal's Rudraprayag district have revived 16 drying springs in their valleys with innovative research. Using the isoptope technique (see box

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
Salahuddin Saiphy
Down to Earth
Tags:
Himalaya, Groundwater Recharge, Water Harvesting, NGO, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Statistics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
Energy

Environmental impact and management plant for Alaknanda H.E. Project, Uttarakhand: executive summary

This project, Alaknanda Hydro-electric project (300 MW) is located in Joshimath tehsil of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand. The total population of Joshimath tehsil is 39,919 (Census, 2001). There are around 16 villages in the vicinity of the Alaknanda H.E. project (within 10 km radius from the project sites).

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
CIHMSE
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Alakananda, Hydroelectricity, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Chamoli
Environment

Environmental governance through valuation and payment for specified forest ecosystem services in Uttarakhand

This report identifies ecosystem services and stakeholders and determines spatio-temporal dimensions of the identified services. It documents past and present trends of resource utilization in various forest types. It also documents functional attributes of different forest types including biotic stresses.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Lead India
Tags:
Environment, Ecosystem Services, Governance, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Forests
Climate Change

Reducing carbon emissions through community-managed forests in the himalaya

This book reports on the work carried out by the research project 'Kyoto: think global act local", which aims to bring local sustainable forest management projects under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. The book draws on work carried since 2003 at three sites in India and Nepal. In India, the project sites were in Uttarakhand state, and in Nepal, in Ilam, Lalitpur, and Manang districts. The project gathered data to show that community-managed forests can play important roles in mitigating the adverse impacts of climate change by sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
Kamal Banskota, Bhaskar Singh Karky, Margaret Skutsch
ICIMOD
Tags:
Himalaya, Deforestation, Community Forest Management (CFM), Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Nepal, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Poverty

 Anaemia rampant in women in Bageshwar

A health camp conducted in Sama, 60 km north of Bageshwar in Uttaranchal in November, revealed that anaemia, chronic infections, gout, tuberculosis and rheumatoid arthritis are the common ailments

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Amit Ray
Down to Earth
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Kumaon Himalaya, Nutrition, Health Effects, Women, Health Education, Nutritional Diseases, Anaemia, Poverty, Unemployment, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Rural Poverty
Water Pollution

 Uttaranchal Pollution Control Board contradicts itself on pollution in state

paper mills and distilleries in Uttaranchal are flouting pollution-control norms even though the State Pollution Control Board (spcb) claims that all is well. A study conducted by spcb in 2006,

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Bidisha Kumar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, River Pollution, Kalyani, Paper and Pulp Industry, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Disposal, India, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

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