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12/26/00 -- China Invests US$ 12 Bln in Forest Protection

12/22/00 -- China Expected to Face Timber Shortage

12/21/00 -- Loess Plateau Province To Launch Forest Protection Project

12/19/00 -- FAO Official Lauds China's Forest Protection Efforts

12/18/00 -- Villagers fight mafia to protect their forest

12/18/00 -- EU Funded Project Improves Forest Cover in India's Haryana

12/15/00 -- Anand urges review of bad jungle laws; Commercialisation depriving the poor

12/14/00 -- Elephants on the brink in Asia

12/14/00 -- Court Orders Closure of Delhi's Polluting Industries

12/13/00 -- Inner Mongolia to Build 2,400-kilometer Forest Belt

12/13/00 -- Firms must take initiative in saving trees

12/13/00 -- Asian Elephant Facing Multitude of Threats

12/12/00 -- Wildlife group warns on elephants

12/12/00 -- Elephants and People on Collision Course

12/12/00 -- Asian elephants turn rogue for lack of space

12/12/00 -- Asian elephant numbers under threat, says WWF

12/11/00 -- Eco-tourism, boon for Himachal's decaying forest rest houses

12/11/00 -- China's Timber Industry Must Improve to WTO Standards

12/07/00 -- Who will nip the forestry bullies?

12/06/00 -- China Starts 10-year Program to Protect Natural Forests

12/05/00 -- Forest gone

12/01/00 -- Felling is biggest threat to wildlife: Poachers just poor locals, say officials

12/01/00 -- Development of China's Western Regions Under Scrutiny

12/01/00 -- A War of Pandas and People; Two Species Compete for Chinese Habitat's Resources

11/29/00 -- UNESCO Adds Three Vulnerable Sites to Danger List

11/29/00 -- Stop Oil/Gas Development in Kirthar National Park / Pakistan

11/29/00 -- Asia floods ease, but more heavy rain looms

11/28/00 -- India urged to save tiger after 'record' poaching

11/26/00 -- India: Greenbelt programme: Forest Dept.'s claims contested

11/25/00 -- Japan's plan to ax CO2 using forests is cut down

11/20/00 -- Lonely battle to save last rainforest in N-E

11/17/00 -- Govt hopeful COP6 will allow forest absorption

11/16/00 -- China to Face Timber Shortage

11/15/00 -- China's Timber Consumption to Hit 240 Mln Cubic Meters in 2010

11/13/00 -- Dam Protesters Battle Police to Meet World Bank Chief

11/13/00 -- China Stumps Deforesters

11/10/00 -- Asia's Dry Lands Crisis too Critical to Ignore

11/08/00 -- Troops, rangers unite in fight against violent illegal loggers

11/08/00 -- Massive desertification threatening India, China, Pakistan: UN

11/07/00 -- Troops join campaign to stop loggers; Sawmills to come under close watch

11/06/00 -- Thailand to protect last teak forest: report

11/06/00 -- Chief to protect last teak forest; Army units deployed to deter poachers

11/05/00 -- Big Oil smells gas in Pakistan wildlife park

11/02/00 -- Global Warming Threatens Indonesia's Islands, Says Expert

11/02/00 -- China to Face Big Shortage of Timber

11/01/00 -- Vietnam's Sustainable Forests Key to US, European Markets

10/30/00 -- Philippines Indigenous Community Resents EU Aid Project

10/30/00 -- Mexican forest group certifies management of Kochi woods

10/29/00 -- Rare leopard faces extinction in Asia's far east

10/28/00 -- Reformed illegal loggers join forest conservation drive

10/27/00 -- Nearly 100,000 hectares of forests destroyed annually in Vietnam

10/26/00 -- Vultures Top Agenda at Asian Bird Summit

10/26/00 -- Villagers strip Nepalese forests amid kerosene price hike

10/24/00 -- India to Clone Endangered Cheetah

10/23/00 -- Japan claim on CO2 cut by forest absorption partly rejected

10/23/00 -- Illegal loggers resort to violence

10/23/00 -- Cambodian officials confiscate rare bears, tigers

10/21/00 -- Rani Forests: Conservation a tough job

10/20/00 -- China Launches Project to Save West Forests

10/19/00 -- India dam project grows higher -- and hotter

10/19/00 -- Dam issues spill over in southern Asia

10/19/00 -- China Launches Prohibitive Project To Save West Forests

10/16/00 -- Sino-Forest Launches Chinese Leadership Training Program in "Green" Forestry Practices

10/16/00 -- India to clone cheetah

10/15/00 -- Bengal tigers face shrinking refuge, food supply

10/13/00 -- Cane from Bangladesh's forests reaches living rooms of the world

10/09/00 -- China Cuts Timber Production

10/05/00 -- Military Offensive Menaces Endangered Philippine Eagle

10/03/00 -- Thailand seeks "green labelling" for teak plantations

10/03/00 -- India's Disappearing Vultures Cause for Grave Concern

10/03/00 -- Thailand seeks "green labelling" for teak plantations

10/03/00 -- Forest chief lashes out at dirty officials: Local villagers irked at continued logging

10/02/00 -- Creatures long thought to be extinct found in SE Asia

10/01/00 -- India `discovers' rain forests in Assam

09/30/00 -- India's forest cover pegged at 63.73 m hectares

09/30/00 -- ACTION ALERT: Protect World's Largest Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh

09/28/00 -- New Mill to Produce "Green" Wood Products to Servethe Asian Market

09/27/00 -- Dutch Doctor Brings Orangutan Crusade to U.S.

09/25/00 -- Massive Mekong Floods Blamed on Deforestation

09/22/00 -- China expert worried about panda survival rate

09/22/00 -- ADB warns of environmental threat to Asian growth

09/20/00 -- The flawed forests of Cuc Phuong

09/14/00 -- Vietnam's wild elephants

09/09/00 -- Environmentalists warn of imbalance in Sri Lanka

09/01/00 -- China Says Return of Land to Forests Not to Cause FoodShortage

08/25/00 -- East Asian medicinal tree may go extinct from illegal trade

08/24/00 -- Where Forests Disappear, Illegal Loggers DefyConservationists in Cambodia

08/22/00 -- Rainbow Warrior Impounded by Japan Coast Guard

08/21/00 -- Greenpeace calls for action on forests

08/20/00 -- Shell Oil Drilling Threatens World's Biggest Tiger Preserve

08/19/00 -- China Sets up Largest, Highest Nature Reserve

08/15/00 -- Environmentalists say Vietnamese highway a threat

08/14/00 -- Giant Philippine eagle perched on edge of extinction

08/14/00 -- Environmentalists say Vietnamese highway a threat

08/14/00 -- Early Asian Monsoon Causes Lethal Floods and Landslides

08/13/00 -- SOUTH ASIA: Flood-taming Brings Another Season of Flooding

08/11/00 -- Panda baby boom in China

08/09/00 -- 300 feared killed in south Asia floods

08/08/00 -- Asia floods kill about 170

08/05/00 -- Philippine Island Earns Rare Logging Reprieve

08/03/00 -- Deforestation in Himalayas Blamed for Killer Flood

07/27/00 -- Tribal hunters turn wildlife protectors — by hunting again

07/24/00 -- SRI LANKA: Organic Farming Revives Barren Land

07/24/00 -- Protection of Tibetan Antelope Beefed up

07/24/00 -- China to rescue 500 captive bears, end bile farms

07/23/00 -- Japan frees Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior as G8 ends

07/22/00 -- Rainbow Warrior impounded by Japan coast guard

07/21/00 -- Japan Detains Greenpeace Flagship

07/12/00 -- Korea, ASEAN launch forest restoration project

07/12/00 -- As G-8 Foreign Ministers Talk, Greenpeace Continues to TakeAction

07/11/00 -- Sri Lanka's abandoned elephants get new life

07/06/00--Bangladesh takes up $77 mln forest project

07/05/00--China says more giant pandas living in key reserve

07/05/00--China to Replant 5% of Farmland With Forests, Xinhua Says

07/04/00--China says more giant pandas living in key reserve

06/29/00--Expert analyses forest laws in India

06/28/00--Sri Lanka To Release Elephants

06/27/00--Asian Overlogging in Laos

06/15/00--Land under forest comes down to 8.6 pc in Bangladesh

06/12/00--Cambodia to prosecute Malaysian logging firm

06/06/00--Forests Go up In Smoke as Fuel Prices Soar

05/30/00--World Bank finds fine environmental ally: Japan!

05/27/00--Cambodia to ban logging in Cardamom Mountains

05/20/00--Help Stop NY-Based Ogden from Building on India's Narmada River

05/15/00--Asian Logging Ban Not Enough for Forest Conservation, UN FAO Says

05/14/00--Chinese Premier Urges Anti-Desertification Efforts

05/12/00--China's Improving Energy Supply Stokes Criticism of Three Gorges

05/10/00--Report: Cambodia Forests Threatened

05/10/00--Stricter Japanese Building Codes Forcing Some Mills to Close

05/10/00--Report Says Cambodia Forests Threatened

05/08/00--China:  Where the Future Is Made of Wood

05/07/00--Pakistan Fears Mass Migration from Drought

05/05/00--Philippines Primary Forest Drastically Reduced

05/05/00--US Patent for Asian Tree Challenged

04/24/00--Rangers Fight to Save Tigers from Poachers

04/14/00--Japan at Center of Debate on Endangered Species

04/11/00--Overdevelopment Threatens Chinese Bird Sanctuary

04/11/00--India: Law to Protect Biodiversity Soon

04/05/00--India's Tigers Could be 'Extinct Within 10 Years'

03/31/00--Vietnamese Elephants May Face Extinction

03/31/00--Illegal Tiger Trade Still Rampant

03/30/00--Poaching Endangers Sumatran Tiger

03/29/00--Tiger Poaching 'Still at Danger Level'

03/29/00--Pacific Rim's Forest Products Regain Lost Ground

03/27/00--Top Japanese Paper Makers To Merge

03/27/00--Clinton Administration Helps Indian Conservation NGOs

03/24/00--Helping Bangladesh Conserve Its Tropical Forests

03/23/00--Clinton Visits Tiger Reserve as Poaching Continues

03/23/00--Clinton Visits Tiger Reserve as Poaching Continues

03/20/00--Paper project may cut encroachment; Eucalyptus trees set to mushroom in East

03/20/00--Sino-Thai Paper Project May Cut Encroachment

03/17/00--Years of War Leave Sri Lankan Ecology Damaged

03/17/00--Years of War Leave Sri Lankan Ecology Damaged

3/16/00--Fujian Continues to Top China in Forest Coverage

3/14/00--World Awaits Court's Decision on Narmada Dam

3/14/00--India: World Awaits Court's Decision on Narmada Dam

3/13/00--UN Agency Worried About Repeat of SE Asian Haze

3/10/00--Chinese Official Sentenced To Death For Three Gorges Corruption

3/6/00--China Looks West to Underpin Prosperity

3/3/00--Asian Development Bank Concession Review Still Falling Short

3/3/00--China Completes 4 Million Hectares of Afforestation in 1999

3/2/00--Politicians the GOFORs of Multinationals?

03/1/00--Japan And The International Wildlife Trade

3/1/00--ADB's Ability to Review Cambodia Forestry Concessions in Doubt

3/1/00--Japan And The International Wildlife Trade

2/29/00--Nepal Creates Tiger Conservation Action Plan

2/29/00--Yunnan has Most Nature Reserves in China

2/14/00--China, Russia to Cooperate on Forest Felling

2/13/00--Fashion Elite Urged to Drop Shahtoosh; Super Soft Wool Comes From Endangered Tibetan Antelope

2/11/00--Chinese "Dragons" Face Extinction in Year of the Dragon

2/11/00--Indian Official Arrested for Killing Endangered Animals

2/9/00--Vietnam: Forest Planting Efforts Increased

2/8/00--Thailand: As Latest Dicaprio Film Opens, the Real 'Beach' Looks a Disaster

2/6/00--China: Long Horned Beetle Infestation is Much Worse Than in Chicago

1/31/00--Wealthy Chinese Eating Wildlife into Extinction

1/30/00--Animal Activists Urge India, China to Save Tigers

1/24/00--Cambodian Officials Suspended Over Logging Scam

1/26/00--Cambodia PM Orders Officials Arrested over Logging 

1/15/00--Cambodia Vows to End Deforestation

1/30/00--India: Eroding the Gains from Forest Protection

1/28/00--New Trend in Wildlife Crime: Poachers Target Indian Leopards

1/21/00--Wildlife Contraband Finds Easy Route through Nepal

1/20/00--Calls for Eradication of Tiger Trade

1/18/00--Animal Trade Crackdown in China

1/16/00--China Seen Boosting Timber Imports in 2000

1/16/00--Starving Giant Panda Faints on Farmer's Doorstep

1/14/00--Bangladesh Faces Ecological Catastrophe 

1/14/00--Cambodia Minister Says Officials Behind Log Crime

1/11/00--Cambodia: Stop Logging Now or No Forests Will Be Left

1/3/00--Sri Lanka Caters to Tourist Golfers at Elephants' Expense

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