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FeaturesEnvironmental lessons from the tsunami Indian law prohibits encroachments within 200 metres of the high tide line and 500 metres in certain sensitive areas, for example where turtles are nesting. But the coastal regulations have been repeatedly diluted to promote commercial interests More... Will Area Water Partnerships give people back their rivers?The people living near the Patalganga river have been fighting for two decades against the pollution of their water source. Now there's new hope in the form of the Patalganga Area Water Partnership, initiated by the Indian Water Works Association, that will give them a say in how this natural resource is used and maintained More... Forced displacement from protected areas: The spectre looms largeNearly 4 million people in India live inside protected areas and are dependant on their resources for survival. The Ministry of Environment and Forests' strict enforcement of a 2000 Supreme Court order restricting the collection of natural resources from inside protected areas is likely to have far-reaching consequences, forcing local people out of their traditional homes and creating a conflict between people and conservation More... Land reform: The Forest Conservation Act is in the wayIs the rigid Forest Conservation Act, 1980, derailing ongoing peace talks with the Naxalites in Andhra Pradesh and other states with its stringent provisions disallowing settlement rights on forestland? More... Silent Valley in turmoil againAs the power-strapped Kerala state studies the feasibility of a 64 metre high dam across the Kunthi in Silent Valley, environmentalists argue that the Rs 2,470 million dam will have an ominous impact on the environment More... Street dustbins are the problem, not the solution!Long before a Supreme Court deadline for the implementation of the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000, came into effect in January 2004, Suryapet in Andhra Pradesh had showed the way to the rest of the country by cleaning up its waste in a safe, environment-friendly manner More... Playing golf beside a watery graveIt seems inconceivable that some time in the near future people will be playing golf on what was once fertile agricultural land belonging to the struggling people of the Narmada. If a Rs 170 crore proposal by the Sardar Sarovar Nigam Ltd (SSNL) to develop tourism facilities at Kevadia, the site of the Sardar Sarovar dam, goes ahead, that's exactly what will happen More... Reliance vs the olive ridley turtleHundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles visit the beaches of Orissa en masse to nest. Now, along with several other threats to their existence, comes the threat of offshore drilling by one of our country's leading industrial houses More... Hell flows along the River GangaOn a single day, April 19, Eco-Friends fished 60 floating corpses out of the 10-km stretch of the River Ganga in Kanpur. What then is the progress of the ambitious Ganga Action Plan? More... |
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