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SOUTH ASIA
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2006
Tracking the snow leopard: The life and habits of the elusive snow leopard will no longer be a mystery. For the first time, a team has fitted a snow leopard with a global positioning system (GPS) collar to track its movements. The 35 kg female was captured on the Purdum Mali ridge in Pakistan. Over the next few months, the team aims to tag another four snow leopards. The solitary nature of snow leopards and their habitat in remote rocky terrains, make them difficult for study.
NEWS SNIPPETS
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2006
• Researchers in Kenya and Britain say they are creating a global map to pinpoint locations where malaria is most likely to strike. They say it will help fight the mosquito-borne disease by enabling individual countries to work out infection rates and required drugs. The map should be complete within the next 18 months, the researchers say.
How is South Asia faring on energy?
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2006
South Asia, home to a quarter of the world's population, is a major energy consumer. According to the us Energy Information Administration, the region's primary energy consumption increased by 58 per between 1991 and 2000, and is expected to increase by another 40 per cent in the next three decades.
South Asia
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2006
Power to the people: The Sri Lankan government has started working on a five-year national plan on power and energy development to provide quality service at cheaper rates and to solve the country's power crisis.
Asia-Pacific agreement on net fishing
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2006
As a part of major reforms for the fishery sector, 14 countries agreed to cut trawling and push net fishing to reverse the growing production of low-value 'trash' fish. The decision was taken at the recent 29th session of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission held in Malaysia. Trash fish are of little commercial value and used as feed in the aquaculture sector.
Nepal's rhinos pay a price for political instability
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2006
blame it all on the "negative impact of political instability" in Nepal. This seems to be the ready excuse for any untoward incident in the country, even if it is related to wildlife. In the last week of July, the Chitawan National Park authorities found three rhinos dead in adjoining community forests.
South Asia
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2006
power boost: To overcome power shortage, Pakistan has recently given approval to the country's five independent power companies to set up plants at an estimated cost of us $1 billion. These power producers -- Fauji Al-Kubail (from Dubai), Orient Power, Nadeem Power, Saif Power and Muridke Power -- will run their turbines on gas. Each with a capacity of 200 mw, initially the plants will operate at 60 per cent capacity.
Timely intervention
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2006
while Nepal's major political parties are trying to negotiate with the Maoist rebels in New Delhi for a common minimum programme and overthrow the government of king Gyanendra, in Nepal, the community forest right activists are trying to convince the democratic leaders to include community rights in the negotiation.
Fraudulent deal
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2006
A British water company found guilty of overcharging millions of pounds from customers in Europe, is set to take over the management of Kathmandu's water supply.
The company, Severn Trent Water, will take over from the Nepal Water Supply Corporation. It was the sole company left after three other companies withdrew their bids a few months ago. Severn will run Nepal's Water Utility Operator to be formed under a water utility restructuring scheme initiated by the Asian Development Bank.
Privatising parks
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2006
on New Year's Day 2006, King Gyanendra of Nepal quietly issued an ordinance that many environmentalists fear could prove a major setback to this Himalayan kingdom's efforts over the last decade to restore people's rights over their natural resources.
