Illegal loggers threaten Indians
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur threatened to re-impose a controversial anti-terror law as violent protests flared during Independence Day.
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American Indians are adding their voices to the controversy over mercury in the nation's waters, saying they are among the biggest consumers of fish and therefore more at risk from contamination.
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For the nation's forest rangers, the serenity of the woods increasingly is giving way to confrontations with unruly visitors.
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Ethnic minority groups in Northern Ireland are warned by police of threats to attack them.
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Islamic extremists have threatened Indian cricketers due to begin a tour of Bangladesh this week with serious consequences if they went ahead with their trip, the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh said on Sunday.
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Description: Two high-powered Republican lobbyists face a Senate hearing on their alleged efforts to defraud a wealthy Texas Indian tribe.
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A strike called by a tribal youth group to oppose the mining of uranium in part of northern India causes severe disruption.
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Bollywood film financier and diamond merchant Bharat Shah has filed a complaint with police that he had received threatening calls from a Dubai-based man.
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Mexican police and soldiers arrested three men Monday during an operation to fight illegal logging in a mountain region south of Mexico City where an environmentalist was killed last month.
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Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives, says report.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - Business owners could soon face fines and even jail time if they hire illegal immigrants in this Long Island community, the latest in one of many efforts by local governments across the country to crack down on undocumented workers.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN, STAFF WRITER The state's environmental cops are often handcuffed as they try to protect the public from health risks that lurk beneath old industrial properties.
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A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.
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Authorities in India are to investigate claims by terrified villagers that &quot;bigfoot&quot;-type hairy giants are roaming the jungles of the remote northeast, a local official said.
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A jungle bandit gunned down by police earlier this week was still tantalising India from beyond the grave yesterday. Treasure hunters were said to be scouring the southern jungles
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Industrial logging is damaging Central Africa's pristine forests and threatening an important ecosystem, the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts says.