Nepali Cabinet To Meet On Everest To Bring Attention To Global Warming

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huffingtonpost.com - 11/4/2009

Nepali Cabinet To Meet On Everest To Bring Attention To Global Warming

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KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday. The Cabinet will meet at the Everest base camp later this month, just ahead of an international climate change conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark, Forest and Soil Conservation Minister Deepak Bohara said. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and other Cabinet members will fly by plane ...

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Tiger experts call for urgent action to save species

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care2.com - 11/1/2009

Petition: Stop Animal Sacrifice in Nepal - Naresh Kadyan

— care2.com — Can you picture a festival where more than 200,000 animals are killed by a thousand of drunk... men carrying large knives to please a goddess? This is exactly what - if nothing is done - will happen in December 2009 in Nepal during the Gadimai Festival - OIPA in India / PFA (SPCA) Haryana (more) Petition: Stop Animal Sacrifice in Nepal - Naresh Kadyan

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