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Tigers and Economies
Promoting economic development is the key to wildlife
conservation.
There's no shortage of interest in saving the tiger from
extinction, particularly in this Chinese year of the tiger. Last month 13
nations met at a confab known as the Global Tiger Initiative and set a target
of doubling the number of tigers in the wild to 7,000 in 2022 from about 3,200
at present. This weekend the Tiger Forum will meet in China 's northeastern city of Hunchun St. Petersburg ,
Russia
Plenty of money is being thrown at the problem, too. Over
the past decade, the Indian central government alone increased its allocation
for Project Tiger to $128 million in the current 12th five year plan
(2007-2012), up from $32 million in the tenth plan and $16 million in the ninth
plan. This works out to about $25,000 per tiger per year……………..
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The law catches up with Vedanta
Last Updated: 10:26 IST(25/8/2010)
Of all the welfare laws of the United Progressive Alliance
(UPA) government, the Forest Rights Act (FRA) is the most crucial to its
overall vision of developing an inclusive society — something that it is waking
up to now, as the decision to cancel Vedanta's mining rights for violating the
FRA, among other laws, shows.
First, the FRA can help the Congress consolidate a
traditional political constituency. i.e. tribals, 8 per cent of the country’s
population, or roughly 84 million people. Secondly, if tribal rights are
protected under the laws, it will contain the spread of Maoism, the “biggest
internal security threat,” according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Unlike other welfare measures of the UPA in sectors such as
employment and health, the FRA addresses the most primary component of
empowerment — the right to land .……………………………….
by Mridul Chadha on August 25, 2010
The Indian government has sanctioned $6.4 billion to finance
the efforts to mitigate the perspective impacts of climate change on
the environmentally sensitive and populous areas of the country.
These funds will be used to achieve the targets and goals
mentioned in the National Action Plan on Climate Change released by the
Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change in 2008. The plan of action to
mitigate the impacts of climate change have been subdivided into eight broad
categories covering the most critical areas.
These areas include energy efficiency, solar energy,
sustainable agriculture, water conservation, sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem
and building a knowledge base for understanding climate change and its impacts
better………………….
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