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The 10-minute-documentary "Mine: Story of a sacred mountain" aims to increase public awareness about a real Avatar issue in our planet earth.The Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most remote tribes, live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. The documentary shows their Read more »

Nairobi (Kenya), 22 February 2011

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced that India, with one of the fastest growing economies in the world that is embracing the process of a transition to a Green Economy, will be for the first time ever the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on 5 June.

This year's theme 'Forests: Nature at Your Service' underscores the intrinsic link between quality of life and the health of forests and forest ecosystems. The WED theme also supports this year's UN International Year of Forests.

India is a country of 1.2 billion people who continue to put pressure on forests especially in densely populated areas where people are cultivating on marginal lands and where overgrazing is contributing to desertification. Read more »