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  • Making resettlement work: The case of India’s Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Krithi K. Karanth (2007), Biological Conservation, Issue 139, III-IV The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in India's Western Ghats mountain range. The sanctuary contains some of India's most celebrated and endangered wildlife, including the Bengal Tiger and Asian Elephant. Other mammals include the Guar, Sambar, Slender Loris, Chital, and Leopard. In addition to containing some of India's richest biodiversity (recently India has applied for the Western Ghats to gain World Heritage status), the sanctuary was at one time home to thirteen villages that increasingly affected, and were affected by, their protected surroundings. In 2002 eleven of these thirteen

  • Environmentalists Can Start to Debate the Pros and Cons of a Ron Paul Presidency

    Alex Scholz Is a Ron Paul presidency the specter of the unbridled capitalism of an 18th century London blackened with factory smoke, the waterways polluted? Or is it more like the start of the 20th century of Teddy Roosevelt promoting a national parks system and conservation? Yesterday, a doctor and congressman, long a darling in the alternative health community, raised 4.3 million dollars from 37,000 donors in a single day.

  • States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases

    New York is one of more than a dozen states, led by California, preparing to sue the Bush administration for holding up efforts to regulate emissions from cars and trucks, several people involved in the lawsuit said on Tuesday. The move comes as New York and other Northeastern states are stepping up their push for tougher regulation of greenhouse gases as part of their continuing opposition to President Bush’s policies. Read more

  • U.S. Senators Propose Compulsory Greenhouse Gas Cuts

    WASHINGTON, DC, October 18, 2007 (ENS) – A bipartisan bill introduced today in the U.S. Senate proposes mandatory, not voluntary, limits on greenhouse gases with the goal of reducing the nation's emissions more than 60 percent by mid-century. The bill's authors say the plan is a serious and viable effort to tackle global warming and key Democrats aim to get the legislation out of committee and before the full Senate by early next year. The proposal, introduced by Connecticut Independent Joe Lieberman and Virginia Republican John Warner, would impose greenhouse

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