#andamans — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #andamans, aggregated by home.social.
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Powerful piece by Ramachandra Guha on the planned ecological and social disaster that is the #GreatNicobar infrastructure and transhipment terminal project.
#conservation #restoration #islands #Andamans #Nicobar #biodiversity #tribals #shipping #destructiveDevelopment
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/destruction-foretold-the-planned-disaster-of-the-great-nicobar-island-prnt/cid/2092519 -
In the superb new issue of #Frontline... a piece by Rohan Arthur and myself:
An obit for Patai Takaru
"Great Nicobar’s mitigation plans reduce #restoration to tree-planting and reef relocation—a deceptive fix for irreversible #ecological loss."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece
#GreatNicobar #islands #Andamans #Conservation #ClimateCrisis #India -
A scathing, devastating critique of the outrageous, thoughtlessly destructive, and ecologically damaging #GreatNicobar infrastructure project, by Pankaj Sekhsaria in #Frontline. Everyone concerned with #nature, #environment, and #biodiversity #conservation in #India should be deeply troubled by this disastrous project and how it's being pushed through.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-infrastructure-environmental-tragedy/article69158497.ece
#Andamans #Nicobars #islands #shipping #tourism #AndamanNicobar -
An indignant and devastating critique of the #environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the Great #Nicobar mega-infrastructure project. ...And that last line! Do read.
#conservation #islands #marineecosystems #rainforests #trees #indigenouspeople #Andamans
https://www.thequint.com/opinion/central-government-great-nicobar-island-port-project-flaws-red-flags-in-eia-report-ignored -
India’s ‘Alternative To Hong Kong’ Proceeds In Lush Nicobar Island, As Govt Ignores Pleas Of Local Tribals
Over the past 17 years, and most recently in 2022, hunter-gatherers, fisherfolk & farmers of a Nicobarese tribe—inhabiting a rainforest-draped island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years—have pleaded with the union government to return them to their ancestral land. But with a Rs 72,000-crore plan to build a giant port, international airport, power plant and tourism facilities by cutting about a million trees in 130 sq km of rainforest, the government has erected a wall of silence to their requests to return home.
#AndamanNicobarIslands #nicobarese #GreatNicobar #TribalRights #ForestRights #deforestation #andamans #RainForests #environment #EcoDestruction #CivilRights #displacement #UnionGovt #india