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Displacement resulting from the establishment and enforcement of
protected areas has troubled relationships between conservationists and rural groups in many parts of the world. This paper examines one aspect of displacement: eviction from protected areas. The authors examine divergent opinions

This paper considers key issues in plant invasion ecology, where findings published since 1990 have significantly improved our understanding of many aspects of invasions. The review focuses on vascular plants invading natural and semi-natural ecosystems, and on fundamental ecological issues relating to species invasiveness and community invasibility. Three big questions
addressed by the SCOPE programme in the 1980s (which species invade; which habitats are invaded; and how can we manage invasions?) still underpin most work in invasion ecology.

It is practically axiomatic that rainfall is redistributed as throughfall, stemflow and canopy interception in forest ecosystems. The redistribution pattern in the present study was observed in the fifteen years old block plantations of Aegle marmelos, Emblica officinalis, Syzgium cumini, Tamarindus indica and Terminalia bellerica at JNKVV Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

This paper examines the role of non-timber forest products (NTFP) in the rural household economy and the demographic and economic factors determining the participation behaviour in forest gathering in the dry deciduous forests of Karnataka state.

The paper presents studies on socio-economic and livelihood pattern of Baiga tribe found in sal forests of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh state. The study was conducted in Achanakmar which has predominance of sal forest with large number of under shrubs and shrubs.

An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Java in the early hours of May 27, 2006. More than 135,000 houses were destroyed and an estimated 647,000 people were

Amnesty International has released satellite images as evidence of the devastation caused by Zimbabwe's programme of demolishing houses, carried out last year. They used satellite images of Porta