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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/natural-disasters/cyclone-arnab-aftermath-flood-hit-villages-in-odisha-face-drinking-water-crisis</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A tube well is disinfected in Gajapati district as authorities work to restore safe drinking-water supplies.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Residents of Lingapur village in Odisha’s Gajapati district gather around a water tanker. Safedrinkingwater has become scarce in the aftermath of the floods.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/odisha-begins-seven-month-fishing-ban-to-protect-olive-ridley-turtles</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A turtle excluder device (TED) is fitted into a fishing net to allow turtles caught in the net to escape.The Odisha forest department has made it compulsory for fishing trawlers to install the devices]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Gahirmatha beach, in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, is recognised as the world’s largest naturalnestingground for Olive Ridley sea turtles]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Forest officials patrol the waters of Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary from an offshore turtle protection camp]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-11-01T06:35:35.860Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/yerevan-pathway-cop17-ends-with-decisions-on-50-agenda-items</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Activists called for the conclusion of several outstanding decisions, including those on cooperation with other conventions and the global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism under the Nagoya Protocol, which COP17 deferred to COP18 because of a lack of time]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Celebrating the adoption of decisions on resource mobilization and the Global Review; (From left to right) COP17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Environment, Armenia; CBD Executive Secretary Astrid Schomaker; and Inger Andersen, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme ]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-11-01T06:27:36.608Z</lastmod>
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