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Below is a collection of informative articles on Indian wildlife found on the Internet.

A disaster in the making - The Financial Express 10.4.05
The Financial Express excerpt: Ill-planned industrialisation a threat to mangrove belt in Orissa
In rhino land - Frontline 26.2. - 11.3.05 issue
Frontline excerpt: Kaziranga, which celebrates one hundred years of efforts to save the rhinoceros, and Manas, home to the Royal Bengal Tiger, are two success stories in conservation in Asia.

Encroaching on a lifeline - Frontline 15.2. - 28.2.03 issue
Frontline excerpt: Mumbai's Borivali National Park, which is India's only park within a metropolis, is threatened by encroachments despite a May 1997 ruling of the Bombay High Court that the encroachers be evicted and resettled elsewhere.

Caught in a corporate web (28.3.04) - An article on the Olive Ridley rookery being endangered by a new planned port in Orissa
The Hindu excerpt: The revival of the port project in Dhamra, Orissa, places huge risks on the endangered Olive Ridley turtle and Gahirmatha, the largest turtle nesting site in the world, says PANKAJ SEKHSARIA.
Updated 10.4.2005