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Open letter to Ministry of Environment

 

A quiet holiday that never was

With commanding views, Mussoorie presents a fairyland atmosphere to tourists. Or does it?

Is NHPC the law?

Neeraj Vagholikar The Statesman, July 23, 2005

The Draft Scheduled Tribes Bill 2005

Kalpavriksh recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs regarding concerns about the draft Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill 2005.

Justice, Endangered Species

Ghazala Shahabuddin

Offer Lord Ganesh a clean environment!

A campaign to make the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi more ecosensitive and non polluting

Final technical report of the NBSAP

 

NEW! Release of 'Securing India's Future'   India International Center, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 2005-04-10 14:00:00 - 2005-04-10 17:30:00

Technical report of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Release of 'Securing India's Future'   Bharat Itihas Samshodak Mandal, 1321 Sadashiv Peth, Pune 30 (near Bharat Natya Mandir and Peru Gate Police Chowky), 2005-10-10 16:00:00 - 2005-10-10 18:30:00

 

Of the people? Oh, really?

Tejaswini Apte, Hindustan Times, Nov 18, 2005

Keeping Biopiracy at Bay

Tejaswini Apte and Ashish Kothari Times of India, Dec 6, 2005

80-member group on mission to save trees takes green moves to new high

Indian Express, Vinita Deshmukh, 24 Jan 2006

MoEF trying to divert attention from its inaction

Interview with Asish Kothari, technical coordinator of the NBSAP report.

Colour me Natural

DNA Rituparna Som Monday, March 13, 2006 18:45 IST

Meet Pune's men in green

Politicians posing as tree experts Shweta Desai Indian Express 9 April 2006

AXED......AND COUNTING

 

Sardar Sarovar - Don't forget the environment

In the current debate over the rehabilitation of those displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Project, the fundamental question about the environmental impact of the dam, and whether such a dam should be built at all, has been forgotten, says Ashish Kothari

On the Brink

Another Biodiversity Day has come and gone. And nothing has really changed. Ashish Kothari The Hindu June 25, 2006

Rights and Promises

Ashish Kothari, Frontline, July 2006

Conservation goes back to its roots

 

The Tree of Hope

Roshni Sengupta, Terra Green, Issue 112, 15 July, 2006

Barking up the wrong tree!

The government has failed to include civil society in the process of drafting the National Environment Policy. Kanchi Kohli & Manju Menon, Hindustan Times, 1st Aug, 2006

Ministry of Corporate Environment?

Thus far, MoEF has only been negligent in safeguarding the environment, but now it proposes to do away with even the need to do so. The new draft notification from the ministry has obligingly confined itself to facilitating new investments, and ignored all other stakeholder voices, writes Kanchi Kohli. India Together, 4 Aug 2006

PMC empowers citizens to save trees

PRESERVING GREEN COVER : Civic body to upload proposals on official website, admit objections

It needn't be tigers vs tribals

Pankaj Sekhsaria, The Indian Express, Sept. 11, 2006

The Blame Game

Pankaj Sekhseria, The Hindu, 24 Sept 06

Lead Kindly Light

Manisha Gutman, Times of India, 21 Oct 2006

Conservation goes back to its roots

Ashish Kothari International Herald Tribune November 16, 2006

Road to the edge of the world

Pankaj Sekhsaria, Indian Express, Nov. 23, 2006

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