Peter Smetacek
Author
The author founded the Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and specializes in butterflies and moths, which he uses as bio-indicators to assess the health of forests and groundwater.
By Peter Smetacek
No contingency plans are in place for such an event.
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A few years more of forest fires can ensure that whatever small patches of forest are left will vanish.
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There is no governing body for monitoring common names.
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They haven't been taxonomically updated since Independence.
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What, one would like to know, were the criteria used to decide which species needed protection?
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It is high time provisions of Wildlife Protection Act are reviewed to extend genuine preservation to wildlife other than tigers.
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Environmental refugees have swelled the urban populations to levels well beyond anything existing infrastructure can handle.
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The water level dropped alarmingly this year despite normal rainfall.
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Unless the state pursues a model of zero tolerance towards the crisis, it may end in water wars.
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