Silent Valley
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A People’s Campaign that Rewrote India’s Environmental Narrative
The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between environmental conservation and development
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The Blue Mountains: Love and Longing for the Shola Grasslands
The Nilgiris are known for their enchanting diversity, but hide a fascinating past — of colonial invasion, mindless reforestation and a raging debate on the origins of its montane ecosystem that lasted for over half a century
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Natural Habitats Under Attack: Conservation of Elephants and other Animals
In the righteous cacophony surrounding the death of an elephant by a bomb concealed in a pineapple, the real, urgent issues that elephants and other wildlife face remain buried
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