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NGOs Call On UNESCO to Protect Sundarbans From Proposed Coal-fired Power Plant

By Chris Lang 25/04/2017 25/04/2017 Editor Posts

The Rampal power station is a proposed 1320 MW coal-fired power station in Bangladesh. It is being built on the edge of the Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Ramsar-listed wetland.

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India’s Kaziranga national park and the Streisand effect

By Chris Lang 10/03/2017 17/03/2017 Editor Posts

The controversy over Kaziranga National Park’s brutal anti-poaching policy continues. Over the past 20 years, 106 people have been killed in the park in north-east India. Shockingly, almost half of those people were killed in the past five years.

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BBC banned from filming in Kaziranga and all of India’s tiger reserves for five years

By Chris Lang 03/03/2017 03/03/2017 Editor Posts

In February 2017, the BBC visited Kaziranga National Park in north east India. Justin Rowlatt, the BBC’s South Asia correspondent, reported that “Kaziranga is a triumph of wildlife conservation.”

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WWF’s role in Kaziranga National Park’s shoot to kill anti-poaching policy

By Chris Lang 10/02/2017 10/02/2017 Editor Posts

“The grass in northern India is the tallest on the planet. Home to some of the most impressive creatures to tread the earth.”

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Open letter requesting that India’s Forest Rights Act is implemented and its integrity upheld

By Chris Lang 09/11/2016 09/11/2016 Editor Posts

When India’s Forest Rights Act was passed in 2006, it was intended support the rights of communities to live in and from their forests. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 legally recognised the right of communities to manage forests and their land.

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Prakash Kashwan on inequality, democracy and protected areas

By Chris Lang 02/11/2016 02/11/2016 Editor Posts

Prakash Kashwan is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. In a new paper published in Ecological Economics, Kashwan investigates the relationship between inequality, democracy and the establishment of protected areas.

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Police kill two villagers during evictions at Kaziranga national park in India

By Chris Lang 21/09/2016 13/01/2017 Editor Posts

Two villagers were killed and about 40 injured (plus 18 police) during an eviction this week from India’s Kaziranga National Park in Assam. The Gauhati High Court ordered the eviction of 300 families who were living in three villages in the buffer zone of the national park.

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