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Conservation

Forests under threat

Arunachal Pradesh

Shrinking green cover

Arunachal Pradesh has nearly 60 per cent of its area under forest cover.
A.J.T. Johnsingh,Kamal Medhi
Greenspace

Roaring round the year

The Karnataka government has given the go-ahead to a project that aims to make Jog Falls perennial by pumping water back upstream. But the move has me
VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED
Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary

Himalayan kaleidoscope

The Kedarnath sanctuary, spread over 972 square kilometres, is the largest protected area in the Himalayas.
G. Shaheed,Photographs by Shefiq Basheer Ahammed

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In this handout photograph released by The Indian Army on June 18, 2013, debris carried by floodwaters of the River Alaknanda crashes against a Hindu Temple in Chamoli district in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on June 18, 2013. Torrential rains and flash floods washed away homes and roads in north India, leaving at least feared 60 people dead and thousands stranded, as the annual monsoon hit the country earlier than normal, officials said. Authorities called in military helicopters to try to rescue residents and pilgrims cut off by rising rivers and landslides triggered by more than three days of rain in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, officials said. -----EDITORS NOTE---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT 'AFP PHOTO / INDIAN ARMY' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Paying the price

For the first time, a company in India will have to pay compensation for damage occurring during a natural disaster: the NGT imposes a fine on GVK for
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI

Tigers in the wild

But destruction of habitat and poaching continue to be the scourge of tiger populations in India. Text & photographs
JOHN ISAAC
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Born Free

But destruction of habitat and poaching continue to be the scourge of tiger populations in India. Text & photographs
JOHN ISAAC

Protecting the tiger habitat

A stable tiger population in India in the past four decades sends out a clear signal that there is a need to establish “conservation zones” where all
RAKESH SHUKLA

Saving the tiger’s land

A stable tiger population in India in the past four decades sends out a clear signal that there is a need to establish “conservation zones” where all
RAKESH SHUKLA
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