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This poem on the residents of Great Nicobar Island & recent headlines surrounding them. Written from the point of the view of the Nicobar Megapode – a threatened bird endemic to the island and indigenous Shompen and the Great Nicobarese languishing @ Cbay vikalpsangam.org/article/not-a-…

Andaman & Nicobar administration rushes land acquisition for an international airport that is part of NITI Aayog's mega project. Residents & local panchayat demand engagement on social impact assessment (SIA) & a proper public hearing. For TheNewsMinute thenewsminute.com/news/great-nic…

Veena George is a Health Minister of Kerala. She has every right to be on the ground in Kuwait. What position do you hold Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 ? 😏

Very few people have acknowledged the Shompen. A Letter to the President of India: Who will stand up for 229 Shompens (PVTG) and 27,168 Nicobarese in Great Nicobar Island, whose interests stand ignored by a “Mega Infra Project”? countercurrents.org/2024/06/open-l… via @countercurrents

‘Anything we do in Andamans has to be done with great care and sensitivity: from the B'lore release on 9 June with Samar Halarnkar Champaca Vaishna Roy Frontline Aathira Perinchery; For more info & to get copies, pls write to me at [email protected] thehindu.com/news/cities/ba…

Suspend Clearances, Conduct Impartial Review of Great Nicobar Island Mega-Project: Congress m.thewire.in/article/enviro…

Only because they consider monoculture tree plantations also as "forest cover".

India Institute of Theology has fined students 1.2 lakhs. It's weird how hurt sentiments are soothed with hard cash.

Over nine lakh trees likely to be axed for the Great Nicobar Project. [The Hindu - August 2023] While we are fighting climate change....

Found a couple of these Brown fish owls last night. #munnar #wildlife #owl #westernghats #biodiversity #fieldbiology

One of those rare cases where the forest department and the forest minister actually take a stance against forest diversion. It is rare even when the company involved has a track-record of violations of the law (Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd in this case) thesouthfirst.com/karnataka/hope…

Union Tribal Affairs Minister promises to look into Great Nicobar clearances - The Hindu thehindu.com/sci-tech/energ…

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🚨 Karnataka forest dept opposes iron ore mining in #Sandur forests pushed by ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ.ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ | H.D.Kumaraswamy in one of his first moves as steel minister. The forest dept had unanimously opposed it earlier too when BJP was in power in Karnataka. An exclusive interview: frontline.thehindu.com/environment/mi…

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Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization? A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have DNA evidence that answers these questions with a high degree of certainty. 🧵

FAO defines forest as "lands of more than 0.5 hectares with a tree canopy cover of more than 10%". This allows countries like India to claim increase in forest cover for the most ridiculous of reasons even while chopping down primary and secondary forests deccanherald.com/india/india-am…

#EXCLUSIVE | Have you raised these issues of illegalities taking place on the ground with Rahul Gandhi, Pinarayi Vijayan and Narendra Modi? Hear out ecologist Madhav Gadgil's response. #WayanadDisaster #KeralaLandslide #WayanadLandslides #NewsToday | Rajdeep Sardesai

🚨Exclusive: Modi govt shut down almost 200 district weather advisory units providing crucial services to farmers after NITI Aayog misrepresented their role & sought privatisation of services. Based on internal finance ministry documents #RTI article-14.com/post/farm-weat…

I think there exists a high powered committee of babus, whose only job is to find newer and newer ways to harass the citizens in the most painful manner possible and then recommend them to the Govt.