Biodiversity eroded

CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUES OF BIODIVERSITY, A COMPLEMENTARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT·edited by Darrell Posey&…

Case for CFM

COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT — A CASEBOOK FROM INDIA·Joe Human and Manoj Pattanaik·Oxfam Publishing, Oxford·176pp·…

Genes and extinction

GENETICS AND THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES·Editors – Laura F Landweber and Andrew P Dobson·Princeton University Press·…

Profit vs pollution

THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF PESTICIDES: FORGING CONSENSUS FROM CONFLICTING INTERESTS· Peter Hough·Earthscan, London, 1998·£ …

The story of a thirsty Kumaon

WATER IN KUMAON: ECOLOGY, VALUE, AND RIGHTS·edited by Gopal K Kadekodi, K S R Murthy, Kireet Kumar·G B Pant Institute of Himalayan …

Documenting dissent

DECOMMISSIONING THE BRENT SPAR·Tony Rice and Paula Owen·E & FN SPON (An Imprint of Routledge), 1999·182pp

Spreading root

OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …

No monkey business

BBC-DISCOVERY CHANNEL CO-PRODUCTION·video·English· 52 minutes

Quotes from the earth, Film festival

Aftershock, rebuliding after Pakistan earthquake

At loggers' heads

In Hobart, Australia, environmentalists are determined to continue throughout the summer tourist season a campaign to highlight the threat -- by …

Snippets

Vatavaran 2003: Grand Finale

On November 20, 2003 the curtain fell on Vatavaran 2003, a festival of films devoted exclusively to environmental issues. Organised by New Delhi-…

Snippets

Website review: http://www.fao.org/hivaids/

This multilingual website, maintained by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, seeks to work as a centralised source of …

Book notice: Empires of Profit

This is the story of the spread of western-style capitalism around the world, and its effects, often unpleasant, on the local populace

A bit off focus

An exhibition of Indian wildlife photographer Subhankar Banerjee's highly acclaimed snapshots of Alaska has been bumped from a prime spot near …

Overdose of war coverage

The relentless bombardment of war-related footage on tv screens has stressed out viewers. Audiences all around the globe have been complaining of …

IPDC Prize - Radio recognition

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has announced that it will present the International Programme for the …

Photography: Still lives

Time has almost stood still in the tiny Lower Nanyao village beneath the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in south-western China. Wild buffaloes still …

Online

A neglected genius

News Snippets

Poke in the eye

Craft in crisis