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Tree fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Ahad Miah has come a long way from his tree felling days. He is now one of the custodians of the Lauachhara protected forest, working shoulder to shoulder with government appointed forest guards.

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Sri Lanka grapples with elephant human conflict

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Yala, January 25, 2007: Sri Lanka's only known crossed-tusk elephant in the wild, known locally as Dalaputtuwa dies of paralysis caused by gunshot wounds in the periphery of a highly protected

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Insuring damage

A way out of conflict? One of Sri Lanka's biggest corporates, Ceylinco Insurance, was happy to take on Ranjith Bandara's research and develop a viable scheme for elephant depredation for rural

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A look at world urban population

Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled

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Costs and benefits of India's waste disposal options

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Out of site

Burnt or buried, garbage needs land

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Have rules, will violate

Urban India's dismal garbage management record

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Ghost energy

Waste-to-energy as a placebo In her petition to the Supreme Court, Patel demanded a stay on the subsidy to wte plants and an independent review of such plants based on the experience in the

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Burning quest

Should public health be sacrificed to waste? Garbage incineration is a trench war with clearly drawn battle lines. The Union ministry of urban development (moud) has been sceptical of wte. Social

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Buried, but not dead

Garbage from the past strikes microchips Mindspace is a commercial area in Malad, a northwestern suburb of Mumbai. It houses a large number of companies like Morgan Stanley, J P Morgan and Otis,

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