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Dwindling numbers

Refuge under threat

Mine or yours?

Dust haze: Elephants struggle to coexist with steel animals in Saranda

Baba Amte: The inspiring gardener

Year-long tenancies deter soil conservation

The present land tenure laws do not encourage the conservation of agricultural land and lead to fallow patches, as is evident from the condition …

Nurture nature

To achieve economic growth and poverty alleviation, it is imperative to constantly replenish environmental resources

Better late than never

After not appearing for three years, the Olive Ridley turtles return to the Orissa coast for mass nesting. Conservation efforts seem to have …

Cities of joy

Better late than never. Germany has initiated the Agenda 21 process across the country. Already nine per cent of all municipalities have plans …

Sustaining terra firma

Scientists in New Zealand have developed a low-cost technology that can clean contaminated soil

Who's to blame?

Management of protected forests is a hotly debated issue. In the absence of a sound policy based on a scientific approach, there are as many …

Mountain biodiversity tops Montreal meet agenda

The entire gamut of activities that threaten ecosystems in the mountain regions dominated discussions at the meeting of the scientific advisory …

Farming fish and mussels

When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam …

Paradise in peril

Galpagos, an archipelago straddling the equator 1,000 km west of Ecuador, is probably the world's best-known biodiversity zone. But alien species …

CONSERVATION

People's participation

UGANDA

Losing signals

Mini Nilgiri reserve

Community enterprise unlimited

Locals get firm

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