Almost the same controversies surrounded the proposal from South Africa to lift the ban in exports of the Southern White Rhinoceros, which was also rejected by the cop-10. South Africa, home to the
Most of the world's rhinoceros populations are concen- trated in six range states: Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe in Africa; and India and Nepal in Asia. The White Rhino (Ceratotherium
The Royal Bengal Tiger is the symbol of conservation efforts in India. Launched in 1973, Project Tiger was initiated with much fanfare, but after its initial success, things went astray. The tiger
The arsenic affected areas of West Bengal are lying on a sediment of Younger Deltaic Deposition (YDD). The same sediment extends eastwards towards Bangladesh, covering the approximate area of 34 districts out of a total of 64 districts in Bangladesh. We suspect that the groundwater of these 34 districts of Bangladesh may be arsenic contaminated.
We determined the association between the use of the glycopeptide antibiotic avoparcin as a growth promoter and the occurrence of Enterococcus faecium (VREF) with high-level resistance to vancomycin (MIC ≥ 64 μg ml−1) on poultry and pig farms. The investigations were conducted as retrospective cohort studies, where groups of farms exposed or not exposed to avoparcin between September 1994 and April 1995 were compared.
History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we really learnt anything from the past?
Geological studies in Kashmir have shown that the rise of the Pir Panjal range around four million years ago resulted in the formation of a vast lake, impounding drain- age in the
Water will become the most prized and precious commodity in the coming years. Internecine conflicts over the resource are already the order of the day and a global water crisis seems not too far away. But the water-guzzling US state of California is show
