#greatnicobar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatnicobar, aggregated by home.social.
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India’s ₹81,000 crore Great Nicobar mega project has cleared a key legal hurdle as the NGT backs its strategic importance while raising environmental, tribal and biodiversity concerns that could shape its future. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/great-nicobar-mega-project-ngt-environment-clearance-india-explained-ihoyx7lg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GreatNicobar #NGT #Infrastructure #Environment #AndamanNicobar
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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 -
The #GreatNicobar project is likely to have disastrous effects on #island #rainforest and #marine #biodiversity... Sad that this huge., destructive project is being rushed through.
https://scroll.in/article/1076098/why-the-great-nicobar-project-could-spell-doom-for-the-islands-unique-fauna
#andamanandnicobarislands #threatenedspecies #primates #seaturtles #endemicspecies #transshipment #India #indianocean -
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.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/wildlife-sanctuary-great-nicobar-island-9499941/
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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