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Breaking now - further to my story on Oil India Limited plans to drill inside a national park , forest advisory committee of MoEF&CC has REJECTED the proposal .. at this stage an advisory but still a bold decision .. you can read my original story for The Quint

We need robust attribution studies for each disaster in the Western Ghats or the Himalaya or other hilly regions. No policymaker should be able to get away with bad development planning by only pointing to extreme events like rainfall. #WayanadLandslide

What do you think India’s future holds? What action should the government take? Share your thoughts below! 🇮🇳 Subscribe to #SanctuaryAsia to hear from stalwarts, and for many more fabulous stories in the August 2024 issue. sanctuarynaturefoundation.org/subscription #India #environment #policy

🧵 Thanks Saket Gokhale MP for raising the issue of #constitutional challenge to the #ForestConservationAmendmentAct2023 in the #SupremeCourt in the #Parliament today . Excuse my unparliamentary language but the response you got from the Hon minister Bhupender Yadav was bunkum. I am

"I swear on the River Roding...that I will faithfully try the case & give a true verdict according to the evidence." This week Paul Powlesland became the first juror in British legal history to swear an oath of duty based on his devotion to a river. theguardian.com/environment/ar….

Yesterday I finished writing the huge bird-book that jackiemorris & I have been working on for 5 yrs now. A few hours later, a kingfisher streaked so close past my head I felt the breeze of its passing. Chance, of course—but it sure felt like a blessing! penguin.co.uk/articles/compa…

Unbelievable! Right here is how our ‘natural’ calamities are crafted! This new order, coming right after Wayanad’s landslide, says you can now take out up to 20K cu.m—or c. 30K tonnes—of soil for roads, pipelines, etc without an environmental clearance! newindianexpress.com/thesundaystand…

The #Climate #GreenCreditProgramme #GreenCreditRules2024SO 884(E) issued by the MoEF&CC #greenwash 's the destruction of existing #forests for #tree #plantations . To save our natural forests & #ecosystems, the rules must be withdrawn. Read #PrakritiSrivastava’s detailed analysis

The #GreenCreditProgramme #GreenCreditRules2024 r positioned to b #climate friendly. Hogwash. The rules #greenwash the destruction of existing #forests, monetise them, allow existing #forests to be traded for #CompensatoryAfforestation under the #ForestConservationAmendmentAct

The enormous tragedy set to befall #GreatNicobar is a "legally-sanitised" disaster wrought by bureaucratic sleight-of-hand, executive callousness, and judicial lapses. As Pankaj Sekhsaria writes, it can even make the most valuable wildlife sanctuary disappear. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

This is the talk you asked for 💚! Yuvan and I will be in conversation to discuss our works, Intertidal and Wild and Wilful, at the Bookstore Inc, Delhi, 18 Aug. Join us and get your copies signed! RSVP: pages.razorpay.com/waysofbeing M.Yuvan Kanishka Gupta krishan chopra Ananth Padmanabhan

This is a dream conversation for me - between Intertidal and 'Wild and Wilful' by Neha Sinha whose thoughts and writing I have followed for years, which keep expanding my perception of conservation and nature. In Delhi, August 18th, tickets here - pages.razorpay.com/waysofbeing

An illegal luxury resort being built inside #Pulicat sanctuary ESZ. The area is also classified as CRZ-3 and is a No Development Zone. Can't believe such a commercial activity is happening right under the nose of authorities. The New Indian Express Tamil Nadu Forest Department Collector Tiruvallur

In the Indian Express today, 14 Aug 2024

Yuvan and I will be in conversation at The Bookshop, Lodhi market, tomorrow 18 Aug. We will dream, we will envision and we will laugh. Come join us. Read with us and dream with us. And - match the passage to the book! M.Yuvan RSVP: pages.razorpay.com/waysofbeing

Lovely evening at The Bookshop Inc. discussing Intertidal by M.Yuvan and Wild and Wilful. Thank you for coming out on a weekend and for the full house! So, so wonderful to know so many of us care for the little ones! We talked about animals and detrivores we don’t “see”.

My #bookreview of The Great #Nicobar Betrayal Mongabay India ... which presents a critique of the #ecocidal maldevelopment project set to destroy #rainforests, #biodiversity, and #marinelife and affect the indigenous peoples of the island. india.mongabay.com/2024/08/book-r…

In 2017, then Karnataka govt formed a committee to check lake encroachments. The final report named real estate firms like Prestige, Brigade, Sobha etc. Nothing happened thereafter. Instead, might of the State is reserved for marginalised groups like this thehindu.com/news/national/…

🚨On July 13, PM Modi launched 2 infra projects in #Mumbai worth Rs 22,000 crore. Both projects require tunnels to pass under Mumbai's only national park. But how will these projects impact the #forest ecosystem? We will not know for many yrs. Here's why+ indiaspend.com/n-922107?utm_s…

In a working paper, #EAC-PM admits little impact of #fortification of cereals. It says a significant reduction in anaemia will come from dietary diversity as shown in empirical studies. In that case, stop fortification and focus on dietary diversity. indianexpress.com/article/busine…