IN NEWS

Shrinking green cover, rising temperatures

TNN, Jan 12, 2011, 04.55am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Shrinking-green-cover-rising-temperatures/articleshow/7264387.cms

12 January 2011 Last updated at 12:11 GMT

Pesticide ban call for around India's Kaziranga park

By Subir BhaumikBBC News, Kaziranga national park

Forestry officials in the north-east Indian state of Assam have demanded the creation of a no-pesticide zone around the famous Kaziranga game sanctuary.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12167318

Greens for action against NHAI in leopard death

Vijay Pinjarkar, TNN, Jan 12, 2011, 05.26am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Greens-for-action-against-NHAI-in-leopard-death/articleshow/7262465.cms

WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2011

Is it time for a mid-course correction? A review of the report submitted by National Committee on Forest Rights Act

http://www.indiadevelopmentblog.com/2011/01/is-it-time-for-mid-course-correction_12.html

IASC 2011 - Sustaining Commons: Sustaining our Future

The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10th to 14th, 2011. 

http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/

India, largely a country of immigrants

A Supreme Court judgment projects the historical thesis that India is largely a country of old immigrants and that pre-Dravidian aborigines, ancestors of the present Adivasis, rather than Dravidians, were the original inhabitants of India.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article1081343.ece

Advances in Forestry Research in India

Praveen Taank, Cyber Tech Pub, 2009, viii, 264 p, ISBN : 81-7884-415-2, Rs. 750.00 

http://www.vedamsbooks.in/no57583/advances-forestry-research-india-praveen-taank