The Daily Star: Internet Edition Fri. August 03, 2007

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Environment

Wildlife conservation need of the hour
Conservation is the optimum rational use of natural resources and the environment, having regard to the various demands made upon them and the need to safeguard and maintain them for the future.

Climate change and tourism
UNWTO is to underline global warming at Davos meet
Climate change is not a theoretical concept for tourism. It is a phenomenon that affects the sector, and certain destinations in particular.

Land use and land cover change affecting sustainable development
Land use and land cover change may denote changes in one particular type of land cover to another new type, such as from forest to agriculture or it may represent modification within the existing land