Indians mobilise to save ancient forests

Singrauli, India - Tribal people living in the central Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh are in the vanguard of last ditch efforts to save....
the famous Mahan forests from being wiped out.

They say that construction of a power plant under a joint venture between two private companies - Essar and Hindalco - would lead to the destruction of the oldest and the largest salwood forests in Asia.

Campaigners are now resisting the plans in Singrauli district - India's energy capital, supplying 10 percent of the country's coal - and asserting rights to the forests that provide sustenance to more than 60 villages.

"We know that justice has not been done with these people", Priya Pillai, a senior campaigner with Greenpeace India, told Al Jazeera. "The government has given clearance for mining without even thinking about thousands of people who depend on these forests."...[...]aljazeera.com
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