Kashmir Times, 27 February 2009
Editorial: Environmental cost of conflict
Shrinking agricultural space, vandalism of forests
A study by the scientific journal ’Conservation Biology’ has raised alarm bells with its findings that 80 percent of the world’s major armed conflicts from 1950-2000 have occurred or are occurring in the most biologically diverse and threatened places on the earth. The study points out 34 bio-diverse hotspots in the world and one among them is the Himalayan region (...)