the India-Canada Environment Facility has approved Rs 17.58 crore for two environment projects in India. In the first project, the icef has approved a grant of Rs 3.20 crore to the World

...are the local wetlands in Assam on account of short sighted flood control measures and unsavoury fishing practices

Beels are shallow waterbodies with rich macrophytic vegetation. The recent satellite survey undertaken by the Assam Remote Sensing Application Centre, shows that there are as many as 3,536 wetlands

the world wide Fund for Nature (wwf) made a strong plea for the conservation and restoration of wetlands throughout the world on the occasion of the World Wetlands Day on February 1. Despite

Muthurajawela marshes, north of Colombo in Sri Lanka, are a fine example ofwhat a well-thought-of wetland conservation project should be. Once a tropical wetland used for rice cultivation, they

there seems to be some good news regarding the most imperilled marshlands on earth, the Florida Everglades. The South Florida Water Management District, which undertook studies of

The fast-depleting forests of the Western Ghats will be the subject