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Amendments to IFA 1927 are regressive, says KKM	10.10.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
Amendments to IFA 1927 are regressive, says KKM
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Aarey “forest” has fired-up Mumbai poll scene	9.10.2019	Citizen Matters
A metro car depot which will wipe out 2,646 trees at Aarey milk colony in Mumbai is an important electoral issue in the upcoming state elections.
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RK Ranjan stresses on GI tagging of Manipur's rare species	4.10.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
RK Ranjan stresses on GI tagging of Manipur's rare species
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Not just Lalbagh, your small neighbourhood park too can protect Bengaluru’s biodiversity	3.10.2019	Citizen Matters
A recent study finds that Bengaluru's neighbourhood parks establish a long continuum of greenery, facilitating the movement of birds, butterflies and insects. Hence the focus should be on setting up many small parks rather than a few large ones, says the study
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Elephants in Kodagu have adapted their behaviour to cope with the daily run-ins with humans	29.9.2019	Scroll.in - News that matters
Leaving leaving protected areas behind, herds of elephants are moving to estates, where they eat, rest and breed.
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Leonardo DiCaprio should withdraw support to Jaggi Vasudev’s Cauvery campaign, says NGOs’ collective	25.9.2019	Scroll.in
The Coalition for Environmental Justice in India wrote to the actor, raising doubts about Isha Foundation’s credibility in protecting human rights.
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Goa’s appetite for wild mushroom delicacies is threatening its forests	24.9.2019	Scroll.in
A seasonal favourite, Olmi mushrooms are important decomposing agents and their depleting numbers could have severe repercussions.
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In Assam, a beloved wandering rhino was killed and the forest department tried to ‘hush it up’	16.9.2019	Scroll.in
Eight months after a rhino wandered out of its sanctuary, forest officials lost track of it. Then it was found dead.
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African Savannas need fires to thrive – they cannot be used to distract from the crisis in Amazon	29.8.2019	Scroll.in
Regular fires in the African grassland help the growth of new vegetation, are non-polluting and necessary for the survival of several animals.
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Let it burn: U.S. fights wildfires with fire, backed by Trump	28.8.2019	Reuters: World News
It was the kind of fire that has terrified communities across the drought-ridden U.S. West in the past few years: a ponderosa pine forest ablaze in the mountains of New Mexico filling the air with thick, aromatic smoke.
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Waithoupat water supply scheme inaugurated	20.8.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
Waithoupat water supply scheme inaugurated
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Waithoupat Water Supply Scheme inaugurated	20.8.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
Waithoupat Water Supply Scheme inaugurated
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Forest Rights Act: UN experts call for ban on forced evictions, raise concerns over enactment of law	19.8.2019	Scroll.in - News that matters
The SC in February ordered the eviction of more than 10 lakh families of Adivasis and other forest-dwellers across 16 states but later stayed its order.
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Until the world cuts emissions from agriculture and forestry, climate change goals can’t be reached	12.8.2019	Scroll.in - News that matters
A UN report found about 25%-30% of food globally is lost or wasted. Reducing this can significantly lower emissions, and ease pressure on agricultural systems.
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Youths from Eastern Himalayan region meets and discussed on Climate Change	11.8.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
Youths from Eastern Himalayan region meets and discussed on Climate Change
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From rejection to eviction: The illegal ways in which MP Adivasis have been denied forest rights	11.8.2019	Scroll.in
Their case shows the flaws in the Supreme Court’s recent eviction order.
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Turn own leikais into green zones: Biswajit	10.8.2019	Manipur: E-Pao
Turn own leikais into green zones: Biswajit
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1,738 environmental activists have been killed worldwide in the past 16 years – some by the police	8.8.2019	Scroll.in - News that matters
Conflicts over resources such as fossil fuels, minerals, land or water are often the cause for violence.
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This book shows how its author turned the Nilgiris into a laboratory for ecological revival	31.7.2019	Scroll.in - News that matters
An excerpt from Godwin Vasanth Bosco’s ‘Voice of a Sentient Highland’, a chronicle and a manifesto of eco-revival.
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The rise in India’s tiger population is only half the story. The other half is less rosy	30.7.2019	Scroll.in
A fourth of India’s tigers lived outside protected areas in 2015, a situation made worse by encroachments.
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