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This paper deal with a description od a fish species, encountered during monitoring Pseudolaguvia shawi. This species has been reported from north Bengal and Sikkim and not from the other states of the region. The present record thus is a first report for Arunachal Pradesh. The paper provides a brief description on the earlier reports on the genus and also provides a detailed...
CAMP Alatoo is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 2005 promoting sustainable development in the mountain regions of Kyrgyzstan. CAMP Alatoo is a successor organization of the Central Asian Mountain Partnership (CAMP), a program financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Jointly with its partner organizations in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, CAMP Alatoo...
The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) is an international, multi-institutional research initiative with a strong emphasis on parternships, adapative management and participation. The program focuses in improving how water is managed and used for improved food production.
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Having depleted much of the biodiversity located in the larger plains of the globe for meeting with industrial development and the linked urbanization that humans have witnessed during the past over a century, much of the remaining biodiversity is now largely confined to the mountain regions, more so to the developing tropics. Realizing that: (i) societies living in the mountains still try to...
This account of volcanic eruption and subsequent evacuation in Tonga was given to Jame Lewis by Town Officer, Mr. Moeake Takai, who kept a diary of event at the time, and to whom the author is deeply wishes to acknowledge permission granted by the Ministry of Overseas Development and the Government of Tonga for the publication of this article.
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