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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/rajasthans-lost-ships</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ But diminishing pastures are just one reason for the overall decline of the species. Other reasons include mechanisation of agriculture and a key legislation which crashed prices.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ What were once the symbols of the desert state, have now sadly become economically unviable for breeders.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Camel herders in Rajasthan have been forced to look for newer pastures as traditional grazing lands have declined.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/simply-put-poverty-upliftment</loc>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/governance/pathogen-benefit-sharing-pact-victory-of-failed-round</loc>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/wildlife-damage-to-crops-not-monitored-experts-call-for-data-systems-specific-action-plans</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Crop loss from wildlife is now among the most financially destabilising threats facing farmers, especially in forest-edge India.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-04-10T07:08:12.727Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/non-survivable-heat-already-here-study-finds-dry-heat-as-deadly-as-humidity</loc>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/poetry-for-an-anxious-world-5-experts-share-poems-of-grief-hope-and-restoration</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A poem can create an inner room in the mind, a place of shelter from a threatening and precarious world.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-04-10T06:07:43.858Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/africa/kidney-disease-is-growing-in-africa-big-new-study-casts-light-on-genetic-risk-factors</loc>
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<lastmod>2026-04-10T05:27:13.903Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/caribou-survival-depends-on-lichen-and-snow-study</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Close-up of a male caribou.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-04-10T04:55:57.422Z</lastmod>
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