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12/31/01
-- Hun Sen ends logging in Cambodia
12/31/01
-- Environmental problems worsen in China's west
12/31/01
-- Environment in W. China Keeps Worsening: Study
12/31/01
-- Cambodian leader orders tree-cutting moratorium
12/29/01
-- Birds 'missing' after US bombing
12/28/01
-- India Vulture Die-Off Spurs Carcass Crisis
12/23/01
-- Govts decision to reorganise forest dept criticised
12/19/01
-- Tax breaks planned for natl parks
12/18/01
-- Protection of the Eco-System a Priority in China
12/17/01
-- New hope for Bengal tigers
12/17/01
-- Indian tiger population stabilizes
12/16/01
-- Tiger population stabilizes in India's Sunderbans
12/14/01
-- China’s First Raptor Rescue Center Takes Flight
12/14/01
-- Cambodia to suspend operations of 17 forest concessionaires
12/13/01
-- Hunters Take a Toll on Cambodian Wildlife
12/13/01
-- Battered Rogue Elephant Herd Safe in Vietnam Park
12/12/01
-- Poachers threaten survival of Cambodian species
12/10/01
-- India Closes Park to Catch Elephant Killers
12/10/01
-- Sand Control Project Launched in NW China
12/10/01
-- Philippines to Create Timber Corridor for WoodSelf-Sufficiency
12/08/01
-- India goes ahead with Tehri dam
12/07/01
-- Philippine President to Launch Carago Industrial Tree Plantation
12/07/01
-- Hundreds fan out in Indian reserve to count tigers
12/06/01
-- China's snakes 'at risk'
12/04/01
-- Philippines Steps Up Campaign Against Illegal Logging
12/04/01
-- Illegal bear bile farms uncovered in China - CCTV
12/02/01
-- THAILAND: Armadillos saved from cooking pots
11/30/01
-- Asia's vultures face growing threat
11/28/01
-- Asia is key to saving planet from environmental disaster,experts say
11/25/01
-- New tree found in Vietnam
11/23/01
-- Rainforest festival in Assam’s jungles
11/22/01
-- Vietnam resumes plan to relocate killer elephants
11/21/01
-- Wealthy Indian poachers slapped with hefty fine
11/21/01
-- Vietnam plans to resume rogue elephant roundup
11/21/01
-- Afghan bombing to affect birds migrating to India
11/20/01
-- China to Subsidize Forestry Protection for Ecological Benefits
11/19/01
-- Tigers, bears to vanish from Cambodian menus
11/18/01
-- Annual Elephant Roundup in Thailand
11/16/01
-- Vietnam suspends relocation of wild elephants after two die
11/16/01
-- Panda habitats outside existing reserves are essential to panda's long term
survival
11/16/01
-- Vietnam Halts Elephant Relocation
11/16/01
-- Hopes rise for China's pandas
11/14/01
-- Plant Species Die-out Worries Bangladesh
11/13/01
-- Logging Bans Prove Ineffective - Report
11/08/01
-- Report: Rare White Elephant Captured
11/07/01
-- Ecological Construction Brings Economic Benefits to China's Western Region
11/07/01
-- Cambodia's Mangroves Get New Lease of Life
11/05/01
-- Endangered species under threat from richer China
11/02/01
-- VIETNAM: Threat to Indochina’s last remaining pristine rainforests
11/01/01
-- Pakistan: New Funds Boost Green Action Plans
11/01/01
-- In the tracks of the snow leopard
10/31/01
-- China's Forest-Rich Province Stops Felling Trees
10/30/01
-- New Vietnam highway may cut through national park
10/28/01
-- PHILIPPINES: Vast forest area awarded to one firm posing as five
10/26/01
-- China Arrests 3 in Panda Poaching
10/25/01
-- CHINA: Ecological Shelter Built for Arid Loess Plateau
10/25/01
-- Efforts to rebuild from economic crisis worsening Asia's environmental woes
10/23/01
-- Stubborn fire at Chinese reserve destroys habitat of rare crane
10/22/01
-- Greenpeace Attacks Monsanto's Biopiracy Plans
10/21/01
-- PAKISTAN: New national forest policy in offing
10/18/01
-- North China Fights Against Forest Destruction
10/17/01
-- Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security
10/17/01
-- Eight elephants found dead in India's Assam
10/16/01
-- Angry Indian villagers poison seven elephants for raiding crops
10/14/01
-- PHILIPPINE: Government acts to conserve mangrove forests
10/13/01
-- Edict banning logging proves no match for greed, poverty
10/12/01
-- The hazards of forest guard work in India's Corbett National Park
10/12/01
-- China taps 10 western areas for resource development
10/11/01
-- Births rekindle hopes for rare Javan rhinoceros
10/10/01
-- THAILAND: Mining land joined to wildlife sanctuary
10/09/01
-- Water sources for China Yellow River dry up-Xinhua
10/03/01
-- China's plans to develop Mekong River worry its southern neighbors downstream
10/03/01
-- Cambodian officials bust wild food restaurants
10/03/01
-- Asian Farmers Moving to Give Up the Plow
10/01/01
-- Asian Elephant Conservation in China Gets a Boost
09/30/01
-- Mission to save Vietnam's elephants
09/29/01
-- Japanese See Priority in Forest Conservation
09/27/01
-- India's tiger success story
09/27/01
-- ADB, WWF tie up for sustainable management of natural resources
09/25/01
-- Feeding the masses? China shows how it's done
09/24/01
-- China, Netherlands Join Hands to Protect Mangroves
09/21/01
-- Large Flocks of Asian Eagles Visiting Pingtung on Way South
09/21/01
-- Historic inter-governmental pledge will combat illegal logging
09/21/01
-- Flooding in Western China Kills 25
09/19/01
-- U.S. Offers Debt Relief to Save Thailand's Tropical Forests
09/19/01
-- Hong Kong rail company proposes tunnel under wetlands for train to China
09/18/01
-- Philippines: Co-ops linked to poaching
09/15/01
-- INDIA: Pesticide Kills 15 Wild Elephants
09/14/01
-- Asian ministers pledge to crackdown on illegal logging, trading
09/12/01
-- Philippines Joins East Asian Campaign to Protect Forests
09/12/01
-- China Turns More Farmland into Forest, Grassland
09/10/01
-- China plans vast water diversion
09/08/01
-- INDIA: Poachers cut down Asia's oldest Sandalwood tree
09/06/01
-- INDIA: National park guards outgunned in war with poachers
09/05/01
-- Environmental Deterioration Basically Under Control in China
09/05/01
-- CHINA: Return of Farmland to Forest Key to Provincial Development: Shaanxi
Governor
09/05/01
-- China Outlines Six Key Ecological Projects
09/04/01
-- UNEP Official on China's Ecological Construction
09/03/01
-- India: Greenbelt programme: 'Tree wardens' services must be utilised'
08/31/01
-- Leopard Strayed into a Congested Town in Eastern India
08/30/01
-- THAILAND: Democrats want action on Praphat forest allegations
08/29/01
-- Poachers kill forest ranger in tiger reserve in India
08/29/01
-- Decades of Asian logging yield deadly fruit
08/28/01
-- Pandas Enjoy a Fertile Summer
08/24/01
-- Beijing to Build Forest Park Around Great Wall
08/23/01
-- 'Good wood' labeling: Can it save Asia's tropical forests?
08/21/01
-- Rare Alligator Is Threatened as China Feeds Its People
08/16/01
-- Farmers blamed for deforestation, floods: Irrigation chief puts in new bid
for dam
08/16/01
-- Deforestation Killing Off Large Fish: Cambodian Officials
08/16/01
-- China: Spending Will Save Pandas
08/15/01
-- China to Inject 100 Billion Yuan into Forestry Project
08/14/01
-- Prawn 'boost' to Thai economy
08/14/01
-- Disease Kills 15 Elephants in India
08/14/01
-- Protecting biodiversity in the Philippines
08/14/01
-- Baby boom ahead for China's pandas, experts say
08/13/01
-- China and World Bank Collaborate on Sustainable Future
08/13/01
-- World Bank urges China to do more on environment
08/13/01
-- China Looks at Technology for Panda
08/12/01
-- China hopes for panda baby boom
08/10/01
-- Yunnan Establishes More Nature Reserves to Protect Plants, Animal
08/07/01
-- Kashmir plans probe into Tibetan antelope deaths
08/07/01
-- PHILIPPINES: Murder: Occupational hazard for committed environmentalists
08/03/01
-- THAILAND: Forestry Official Says Illegal Betel Nut Trees to Be Uprooted by
2004
08/03/01
-- Cambodian villagers hunt rare cranes for food
08/02/01
-- THAILAND: Hmong not doing what they should; Queen had warned of forest destruction
08/01/01
-- Could Shifting Dunes and Suffocating Pollution Endanger Beijing's 2008 Olympics?
08/01/01
-- Wildlife Resources Decreasing in Central China
07/31/01
-- HK derails planned line through prized wetland
07/30/01
-- Thailand considering reviving logging industry: report
07/25/01
-- South Korea to Ban Calif. Lumber
07/23/01
-- Shanghai to Build Nature Reserve Network
07/23/01
-- Cambodia moves to axe illegal logging
07/20/01
-- Illegal loggers face up to 10 years jail under Cambodian law
07/20/01
-- Cambodian Cabinet Reviews Draft Law of Forest
07/20/01
-- Cambodian authorities crack down on exotic wildlife aficionados
07/19/01
-- Rare Gibbons Discovered in Vietnam
07/19/01
-- CHINA DESERTIFICATION: To Heal a Barren Land
07/18/01
-- China, Germany Cooperate to Build Shelter Forest Along Yangtze
07/17/01
-- Forest officials to stand trial for illegal logging inVietnam
07/09/01
-- China will not rely on imports to meet timber demand
07/08/01
-- Cambodia to Develop Two More Forest Protected Areas
07/06/01
-- Less Forest Fires Reported in China
07/05/01
-- Privatizing China's Parks
07/02/01
-- Chinese group makes bid for forest ownership
06/29/01
-- WWF wins important contract to manage two national parks
06/29/01 -- New Visions for Tiger Protection
06/29/00 -- Expert analyses forest laws in India
06/28/01 -- Tibetan antelope faces extinction despite
wool ban
06/28/01 -- Rare Antelope May Vanish in 5 Years, Group
Warns
06/28/00 -- Sri Lanka To Release Elephants
06/27/01 -- Shahtoosh Shawls Are Shrouds for Tibetan
Antelope
06/27/01 -- China: NPC legislates for forest protection
06/27/01 -- CHINA: Growth Needs More Varied Timber Imports
06/27/00 -- Asian Overlogging in Laos
06/26/01 -- China to cut tariffs on wood imports to 2-3
pct from 15-22pct over 3 yrs
06/24/01 -- India Girds for Famine Linked With Flowering
of Bamboo
06/22/01 -- A fund to care for China's lesser known
animals and plants
06/19/01 -- China vows renewed drive to curb desertification
06/19/01 -- Asian bird species threatened
06/19/01 -- Asia's environmental abuse has to end -
ADB
06/18/01 -- Thailand Trade Pushes Tiger Penis Pills
06/18/01 -- Bank Says Environmental Abuse in Asia Must
End
06/18/01 -- Bank attacks Asian environmental record
06/15/00 -- Land under forest comes down to 8.6 pc
06/14/01 -- Japan group urges government to stamp out
tiger products
06/14/01 -- Asia no longer a primate Eden
06/13/01 -- Sri Lanka Plans Radical Revamp of National
Parks
06/12/01 -- Science-based eco-tourists could be South
China's savinggrace
06/12/01 -- Premier Calls for Ecological Shield in Upper
Reaches ofYangtze
06/12/01 -- Hundreds of Asian birds face extinction
- study
06/12/00 -- Cambodia to prosecute Malaysian logging
firm
06/11/01 -- Cambodia logging reform hampered by corruption
- NGO
06/10/01 -- CAMBODIA: Would-be loggers warned off; Imprisoned
Thais letdown by agent
06/10/01 -- BANGLADESH: Indigenous people losing control
over forestresources
06/07/01 -- Asia faces environmental disaster: UN
06/06/01 -- Old habits blamed for China's poor ecology
06/06/01 -- Indian Govt Needs Private Help to Protect
Environment:Minister
06/06/01 -- China: Shaanxi bans one-off chopsticks to
protect forest
06/06/00 -- Forests Go up In Smoke as Fuel Prices Soar
06/05/01 -- CHINA: Large-scale Ecological Protection
Plan Launched inTibet
06/05/01 -- China's Forest Coverage Rises to 16.55 Percent
06/05/01 -- China Warns of Environmental Dangers
06/04/01 -- Taiwan's tip boasts rich habitat
06/03/01 -- Indochina Primates Face Extinction
06/01/01 -- INDIA: Timber smuggling going unchecked
in Kodagu District
06/01/01 -- GEF grant to help conserve biodiversity
in Georgia
06/01/01 -- China's Dust Storms Raise Fears of Impending
Catastrophe
05/31/01 -- China: Rice Bowl May Soon Become U.S.-Type
Dust Bowl
05/31/01 -- CHINA: Forest Park to Be Built at Great
Wall
05/30/00 -- World Bank finds fine environmental ally:
Japan!
05/27/00 -- Cambodia to ban logging in Cardamom Mountains
05/23/01 -- Proposal to demarcate park alarms conservationists
in Vietnam
05/22/01 -- Nineteen Endangered Rhinos Killed in Nepal
This Year
05/20/00 -- On May 23 Help Stop NY-Based Ogden from
Building on India'sNarmada River
05/19/01 -- BANGLADESH: Shell, the environment, and
the tiger that cameto tea
05/17/01 -- Tiger Campaigners Urge Action Over Oil Exploration
05/17/01 -- Shell Pledges to Avoid Bangladesh Tiger
Areas
05/15/01 -- Hunting tigers out in India
05/15/01 -- CHINA: Afforestation Makes Progress
05/15/00 -- Asian Logging Ban Not Enough for Forest Conservation,
UN FAOSays
05/14/01 -- Pakistan Safeguards Eight New Wetlands of
InternationalImportance
05/14/00 -- Chinese Premier Urges Anti-Desertification
Efforts
05/12/00 -- China's Improving Energy Supply Stokes
Criticism ofThree Gorges
05/10/01 -- Greens say Shell bows to park campaign in
Pakistan
05/10/00 -- Stricter Japanese Building Codes Forcing
Some Mills to Close
05/10/00 -- Report: Cambodia Forests Threatened
05/10/00 -- Report Says Cambodia Forests Threatened
05/08/01 -- Shell Pulls Out of Pakistan National Park
05/08/00 -- China: Where the Future Is Made of
Wood
05/07/00 -- Pakistan Fears Mass Migration from Drought
05/05/00 -- US Patent for Asian Tree Challenged
05/05/00 -- Philippines Primary Forest Drastically Reduced
05/03/01 -- Western forest wins pledge of protection
05/01/01 -- Afghan forests ravaged by illegal trade
04/28/01 -- Japan Responsible for Tropical Forest Losses
04/28/01 -- CHINA: The 'walking' dunes
04/28/01 -- China, U.S. Jointly Protect Plants, Animals
04/26/01 -- China S Timber Import Market to Become Active
04/25/01 -- Snow leopards poached for new skeleton trade
04/24/01 -- Shell Plans to Exploit Pakistani Wildlife
Haven
04/24/01 -- BANGLADESH: Great Forest in Great Danger
04/24/00 -- Rangers Fight to Save Tigers from Poachers
04/23/01 -- Japan's Insatiable Appetite for Timber Imports
04/22/01 -- Review of land distribution; 240,000 rai
of forest would beaffected
04/22/01 -- Greenpeace Warns of Ecological Disaster
in Western China
04/20/01 -- CHINA: Farms Into Forests
04/18/01 -- New environment chief to push for selective
log ban
04/17/01 -- Lack of funds, deforestation wiping out
Sindh's forests:Seminar on forestry perspectives
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
04/09/01 -- Battle to save Hong Kong wetland
04/08/01 -- China's giant pandas may survive against
all odds
04/06/01 -- Training seen as key to tackle tiger poaching
04/06/01 -- Panda-friendly forests disappearing even
in China's toppreserve
04/06/01 -- Panda-Friendly Forests Disappearing
04/06/01 -- Panda Population Dwindling at Nature Park,
Scientists Say
04/06/01 -- Ile-Alatau Journal: Pristine Park Draws
Poachers to CentralAsia
04/06/01 -- Human threat to panda reserve
04/06/01 -- Human activity harms giant panda reserve
in China
04/06/01 -- Endangered Pandas Not Safe in Chinese Nature
Reserve
04/06/01 -- Eco-tourists are harming pandas
04/05/01 -- Rhinos stage remarkable recovery in Nepal
04/05/01 -- Pandas face problems in paradise
04/05/01 -- India to train forest officials from 14
countries to endtiger poaching
04/05/00 -- India's Tigers Could be 'Extinct Within
10 Years'
04/04/01 -- Shanghai to Plant More Forest
04/03/01 -- New Task Force Set to Tackle Tiger Poaching
04/01/01 -- UK bid to save Asian vultures
03/31/00 -- Vietnamese Elephants May Face Extinction
03/31/00 -- Illegal Tiger Trade Still Rampant
03/30/01 -- China to set up national-level environmental
protection zones
03/30/00 -- Poaching Endangers Sumatran Tiger
03/29/01 -- Asia deemed cradle of salamanders
03/29/00 -- Tiger Poaching 'Still at Danger Level'
03/29/00 -- Pacific Rim's Forest Products Regain Lost
Ground
03/28/01 -- Rampant tree-felling shrinks Nepal's forest
cover
03/28/01 -- Mangrove forests rapidly vanishing in Thatta:
Govt urged totake immediate steps
03/27/01 -- China dealing with a wealth of environmental
challenges
03/27/01 -- Care for Land Resources Urged in Northeast
China
03/27/00 -- Top Japanese Paper Makers To Merge
03/27/00 -- Clinton Administration Helps Indian Conservation
NGOs
03/26/01 -- Pakistan Not in a Hurry to Sign Kyoto Protocols:
Environment
03/26/01 -- China's Globalizing Economy Ravages Burma's
Forests
03/24/01 -- Indian state toughens wildlife laws, another
tiger dies
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
03/22/01 -- Vegetation Coverage Grows in Xinjiang
03/22/01 -- Northern China Province To Accelerate Afforestation
03/22/01 -- Britain gives 26 million dollars to Nepal
forestry scheme
03/21/01 -- Devastating fire threatens Mount Everest
national park
03/20/01 -- Schroeder Calls on Bush to Stick to Kyoto
Protocol
03/20/01 -- Chinese, Australian Eyes on Tibet Mineral
Prospects
03/20/01 -- Battling China's deforestation
03/20/00 -- Sino-Thai Paper Project May Cut Encroachment
03/20/00 -- Paper project may cut encroachment; Eucalyptus
trees set tomushroom in East
03/19/01 -- Southeast Asian Nations Attempt to Outlaw
Haze
03/18/01 -- Wisconsin developer may preserve part of
woodlands
03/17/00 -- Years of War Leave Sri Lankan Ecology Damaged/
03/17/00 -- Years of War Leave Sri Lankan Ecology Damaged
03/14/01 -- Macau plans wetlands for endangered spoonbills
03/14/01 -- Chinese planners look to mega-cities
03/14/00 -- World Awaits Court's Decision on Narmada
Dam
03/14/00 -- India: World Awaits Court's Decision on
Narmada Dam
03/12/01 -- Asia Pulp & Paper to Default on $12
Billion in Debt
03/10/01 -- Poachers plundering India's Andaman islands:
report
03/09/01 -- Environment Will Not Be Sacrificed in Western
China: Expert
03/09/01 -- China combats illegal logging
03/08/01 -- Wildlife advocates criticize China on protection
of tigers
03/05/01 -- Study: China failing to protect panda preserve
03/05/01 -- Deforestation in Philippines Preview of
Things to Come
03/05/01 -- China unveils first ‘green’ plan
03/04/01 -- Endangered deer targeted ahead of Islamic
feast
03/04/01 -- Cambodian PM reaffirms commitment to end
illegal logging
03/02/01 -- China to Spend 3.6 Bln Yuan on soil Conservation
03/01/01 -- Cambodian PM accepts logging watchdog's
apology
03/01/00 -- Japan And The International Wildlife Trade
03/01/00 -- Japan And The International Wildlife Trade
03/01/00 -- ADB's Ability to Review Cambodia Forestry
Concessions inDoubt
02/28/01 -- Logging ban backfires
02/28/01 -- Giant 'royal' turtles discovered in Cambodia
02/28/01 -- China's Logging Ban 'Threatens Asian Forests'
02/28/01 -- China's ban on logging spells disaster for
SE Asian forests
02/28/01 -- China - Henan province bans logging near
Yellow River
02/27/01 -- New species of owl discovered living in
Sri Lankan jungle
02/27/01 -- China on sandstorm alert
02/26/01 -- Wasteful US govt programs add up to $55
bln-report
02/25/01 -- Poaching, farming threaten sanctuary; Action
urged to savethe western forest
02/22/01 -- Greens seek to bar Pakistan park gas exploration
02/21/01 -- Pacific Rim woodchip markets -- 2000 and
beyond
02/21/01 -- IMF Urges Cambodia to Curb Logging
02/20/01 -- Panda's progress harmed by poaching and
habitat loss
02/19/01 -- Panda Could be Just a Logo if Habitat Loss
Continues
02/19/01 -- Giant pandas said facing survival threat
02/19/01 -- China's Timber Industry Needs to Step Up
Development:Official
02/16/01 -- Giant pandas said facing survival threat
02/16/01 -- Giant panda losing battle for survival
02/16/01 -- Dire Warning Over the Future of the Great
Panda
02/16/01 -- Captive pandas too shy for sex
02/15/01 -- Rare White Tigers Reside in Northeast China
02/15/01 -- Pandas Still Faces Extinction
02/15/01 -- Habitat loss is a major threat to Giant
Panda: WWF
02/15/01 -- Giant Panda not yet out of the woods, says
WWF
02/13/01 -- Nature Reserves Cover One-Tenth of China's
Territory
02/10/01 -- World Bank branches out with US$ 25m forestry
loan
02/10/01 -- China's Chopsticks Crusade Feeds Environmental
Movement
02/09/01 -- Poachers kill tiger in southern Indian reserve
02/08/01 -- Wildlife site at risk from forestry move;
Fund says protectedarea will deteriorate
02/06/01 -- New Wild Camel Found on Chinese Nuclear
Test Site
02/06/01 -- B10m fraud uncovered by auditors ; Documents
falsified fornumerous trips
01/29/01 -- Shell Under Fire For Pakistan Park Pipeline
01/25/01 -- Mafia jaws over Kerala jungles
01/16/01 -- Intervening in Japan's forests
01/16/01 -- CHINA: Major investment for protection of
tropical forests
01/15/01 -- Companies rush to patent wildlife of the
Philippines
01/12/01 -- China Launches Project to Protect Rivers
01/11/01 -- For Human Beings to Evolve, Rules of Nature
Must Prevail
01/09/01 -- Rare Hong Kong Dragonflies Saved From Developers
01/08/01 -- Vietnamese forested areas increase to 33.2
percent
01/07/01 -- Major Investment for Protection of Tropical
Forests
01/06/01 -- Japan's environmental aid to S.E. Asia in
doubt
01/05/01 -- Regulatory Change in the Japanese Residential
ConstructionIndustry
01/02/01 -- China to Create First National Tiger Reserve
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