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Bangalore: The government’s hope of securing world heritage status for the Western Ghats at next month’s Unesco World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting at St Petersburg, Russia, received a blow after a technical advisory body to the agency recommended ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:18 | Source: Livemint.com
Recommending scrapping of two controversial hydro-power projects in Karnataka and Kerala that had run into difficulty due to opposition from environmentalists, the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has suggested setting up of a statutory authority ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: The Hindu
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has finally put up on its website the controversial report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP). This follows the judgment of the Delhi High Court on May 17 rejecting the ministry’s plea ...
May 25, 2012 at 09:08 | Source: Daily News and Analysis
Terming the expansion of commercial plantations in Western Ghats as the reason behind its ecological “degradation”, an expert panel has recommended urgent curtailment in the “disastrous” farming practice in the ecologically sensitive zone.
May 27, 2012 at 05:10 | Source: The Hindu
Mumbai, May 25 -- Nearly nine months after the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) submitted its report to the Centre, the union environment ministry finally uploaded the report on its website late on Wednesday night. The ministry has sought ...
May 25, 2012 at 06:52 | Source: in.news.yahoo.com
The report has also suggested integration of various state departments and other agencies working in the region to form a common policy supporting the environment in whole of the Western Ghats. "Since commodity Boards play a major role in agriculture ...
May 27, 2012 at 05:24 | Source: in.com
Even as the Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee recently stated that the controversial Mullaperiyar dam was safe in itself, the Madhav Gadgil Committee on Western Ghats has found that the dam could not be safe for the ecology of the region.
May 26, 2012 at 04:57 | Source: deccanchronicle.com
Madhav Gadgil Committee on Western Ghats has classified Mullaiperiyar in zone 1 of ecologically sensitive zones (ESZs) where dams more than 50 years old should be decommissioned. While a Supreme Court-appointed empowered committee recently said the ...
May 26, 2012 at 00:17 | Source: deccanchronicle.com
The Madhav Gadgil Committee on Western Ghats has found that the Mullaperiyar dam is not safe for the ecology of the region and it should be dismantled – a position that the state has been taking for some time now. The observation comes a while ...
May 26, 2012 at 21:46 | Source: Asian Age