‘It’s our right to protect nature’
Panaji: Pernem villagers are sore at being forced to accept the legislators' brand of development and being sidelined in participatory planning and governance, but now want to reassert their rights to
View ArticleEnvironment Minister to meet Western Ghat MPs over ecology
Union Environment Minister Anil Dave on Tuesday said he will meet 60 parliamentarians from states in the Western Ghat region following Kasturirangan Committee recommendations on declaring certain areas
View ArticleCentre to begin fresh consultations with states on Western Ghats
If the Centre accepts recommendations of these reports, 60% of the Ghats will be opened up for development and will affect the water security of millions. Millions of Indians living in the six Western
View ArticleEnvironmentalists raise concern over steps to protect ECZ of Western Ghats
RS MP Husain Dalwai writes to Union Environment Minister City-based environmentalists have raised concern on steps that are being taken to protect the eco-sensitive regions of Western Ghats by the Union
View ArticleDrop both reports on Ghats: Forum
MYSURU: Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) president Maruthi Manapade said that the government should drop the idea of implementing both the Kasturirangan and Madhav Gadgil committee reports. Mahapade
View ArticleWhen earth gives back as good as it gets
The calamitous floods in the entire state of Kerala have grabbed the nation’s interest like nothing else these past couple of weeks. Not just India, but the world itself seems to have paused to see what
View ArticleGadgil urges citizens, govt to protect & create groves
Pune: Ecologist Madhav Gadgil on Wednesday said that citizens and governments should take measures to create new groves in cities and immediate surroundings, besides preserving the ones in forest areas.
View ArticleMadhav Gadgil stresses check on industry boom in Konkan
PUNE: Eminent ecologist-scientist Madhav Gadgil on Monday urged the state government not to suppress the Zoning Atlas report, especially for the Konkan region that is witnessing an industrial boom. Zoning
View ArticleESA tag on 57,000 sq km of Western Ghats in new draft notification
The ministry prepared its notification after coming under fire from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for not finalising the ESA in the region. Nearly 57,000 sq km of the Western Ghats should be declared
View ArticleEnvironmentally unjustifiable projects being implemented, says Gadgil
‘Western Ghats is dotted by unnecessary dams’ A large number of projects that are planned and implemented in the country are economically, socially, and environmentally unjustifiable ones, said noted
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