Sanctuary-RBS Wildlife Photography Awards 2009

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India’s Leopard Problem – Is Panthera Pardus Vanishing Faster Than Panthera Tigris?

Sanctuary Cover Story: Dr. Ravi Chellam is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society-India Program and is one of India’s leading large cat experts. His current focus is large carnivores, conservation of wildlife outside India’s Protected Area network and human-wildlife conflicts. Decades of field experience, coupled with over 17 years of research and teaching at the Wildlife Institute of India and valuable insights gained from working with the government and various NGOs qualify him to be one of the key policy-makers for India on the issue of human-animal conflict. He shares here with Sanctuary readers his passion, knowledge and concerns for Panthera pardus, which lives in the shadow of the tiger and the lion, but may well be even more threatened.

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Behind China’s Stern Front, Paranoia Rules

September 1, 2010: Here we go again. The uneasy and artificial calm in Sino-Indian relations of the past few months has given way to tit-for-tat visa cancellations and testy exchanges that more truly represent the unresolved tensions between them.

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Elephants To Be Declared National Heritage Animal Says Ramesh

August 31, 2010, (PTI): Closely associated with the religion and culture of the country, the elephant would soon be declared a national heritage animal as a step up measure for its protection, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said today. "We will soon declare elephant as a national heritage animal as they have been part of our heritage since ages. We need to give same degree of importance to elephant as is given to tiger in order to protect the big animal," Ramesh told reporters here.

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Ban On New Projects In Polluted Sites To Stay Till Oct: Jairam

August 31, 2010: The Environment Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said on Tuesday that the moratorium on new projects in highly polluted industrial clusters will be extended till October 31, as majority of these clusters have failed to submit remediation plan to clean up the sites.

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India To Start Market-Based Cabon Trading System

August 31, 2010: India will soon start a market-based emission trading system to check industrial pollution, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday.

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Tar Balls Nuisance On Goa Coast? Environment Ministry Intervention

August 31, 2010: Union Minister of Environment and Forest Shri Jairam Ramesh  was urged by Goa MP Shanataram Nayak to send a team of experts to Goa to  examine  the causes which lead to the collection of tar balls on Goa sea coast every year and the steps to be taken to prevent such  occurrences.

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Vedanta And Its Fallout

August 31, 2010: The denial of permission by the Environment Ministry to Vedanta Resources' bauxite mining project in Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi region, citing the violation of various laws, and the subsequent visit of the Congress General-Secretary, Mr Rahul Gandhi, to address a tribal rally at Lanjigarh, has stirred up a hornet's nest.

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