Media coverage

of the League for Pastoral Peoples and Lokhit Palu-Pashak Santhan

	Asia's camels are being pushed out by inappropriate land use policies, says LPP specialist Evelyn Mathias. Radio Lora in Munich broadcast an interview in German with Dr Mathias on 22 June 2005. Click here to listen to the interview. mp3 9.6 mb

	Camel crisis Audio file by WRENMedia about the crisis in camel-keeping in India. Includes interviews by BBC/WRENMedia reporter Susie Emmett with camel herders in Rajasthan, and with LPP's Ilse Köhler-Rollefson. Download audio file (Mpeg)

	Camels end on Bangladeshi platters *The Times of India* of 21 January 2005 carried a story on how camels from Rajasthan are being exported to Bangladesh for slaughter. The article quotes evidence from Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan that scores of camels were bought from Pushkar fair by traders from Bangladesh. Read this article

	Rolex journal features work in Rajasthan The Winter 2004-2005 issue of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise journal For Enterprise features the work of LPP founder Ilse Köhler-Rollefson in Rajasthan. It highlights the camel yatra that Ilse and members of the NGO Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan launched in January 2005 to draw attention to the declining numbers of camels in Rajasthan, and the threat this brings to their traditional Raika herders. Ilse received an Associate Laureate award from Rolex in 2002 for her work with the Raika. Download full text 181 kb, 6 pages

	Fewer camels at Pushkar Fair There were 60,000 camels at Pushkar Fair this year, according the BBC's Susie Emmett. But their numbers are falling. BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent programme of 23 December 2004 included a segment on problems facing Raika camel breeders in Rajasthan. Many female camels are now sold for meat - breaking a longstanding taboo among the Raika. They are forced to sell the camels because the animals have nowhere to graze, says LPPS Director Hanwant Singh Rathore.

	Camels at the crossroads Camels are the focus of the January 2005 edition of the *New Agriculturist, an online magazine on agricultural development. Articles by New Agriculturist* reporter Susie Emmett cover the decline of camels in Rajasthan in western India, and their rising popularity in Kenya; the health benefits and market potential of camel milk; and the working camels of India and the racing camels of the Gulf. Several of these articles are based on papers presented at the international conference on Saving the Camel and People's Livelihoods, held on 23-25 November at Sadri, Rajasthan. This conference was hosted by Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan as part of the LIFE Initiative. Read these articles More information on the conference

	Camel population halves in India "The proud ship of the desert is sinking fast", says a report in Express Newsline on 26 November 2004. The report quotes Hanwant Singh Rathore, director of the Lokhit Pashu Palak Sansthan, as saying, "The expansion of irrigation agriculture through bore wells and the Indira Gandhi Canal, as well as the establishment of wildlife sanctuaries, have eaten into prime camel pastures." Read this article

	Lichtblick für Shivas Hirten (Ray of light for Shiva's herders) Natur+Kosmos, June 2004, pp 86-94. Text and photos by Peter Laufmann Article in German about the work of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan and LPP founder, Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, with the Raika camel pastoralists in Rajasthan. Download full text 583 kb, 9 pages

	Rolex Awards for Enterprise League for Pastoral Peoples founder Ilse Köhler-Rollefson was named an Associate Laureate by Rolex Awards for Enterprise in 2002. This book describes her work, along with that of the other prizewinners. Download full text 2522 kb, 6 pages More information (Rolex Awards for Enterprise website)

	Management mit Tradition (Management with tradition) National Geographic Deutschland, March 2003 Article in German by Wiebke Nieland on Ilse Köhler-Rollefson's work with the Raika and their camels in Rajasthan. Read the article (National Geographic Deutschland website)