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How humans can coexist with nature: a tribal group in Kerala shows the way

At about 20 kilometres from Kalpetta in Wayanad is Anneri, a tiny tribal hamlet that sits perched on the slopes growing pepper, paddy and coffee. A muddy off-track from the main road opens into a vast enclosure lined with traditional, thatched roof houses on three sides. In the open courtyard lie stacks of piled up hay.

This settlement in Anneri is home to Kurichiyas, one of the most important tribes of Wayanad, a biodiversity hotspot that houses 13 of Kerala’s 36 tribal communities.

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Move to amend land acquisition Act opposed

Left and YSR Congress Party leaders under the banner of Land Rights Protection Committee on Saturday burnt the copies of the Bill on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Andhra Pradesh Amendment) Act, 2017.

The Central government had earlier rejected the Bill that was passed by the State Assembly, seeking exemption from Social Impact Assessment survey and Food Security.

However, the State government passed another resolution in the ongoing Assembly session to forward the Bill to the Central government.

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Courtesy: The Hindu

Saving our coastlines

Searching for a lovely romantic spot on sandy shores, far from the maddening crowd? Your search has just been made harder by a complex process called erosion. This is not the physical process of sand being eroded, although that is the unfortunate out…

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Courtesy: Deccan Herald

Protests erupt over land acquisition for bullet train

Residents of villages in Palghar, Dahanu and Virar on the outskirts of Mumbai who stand to lose their land to the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project have come out in protests in many places after the local administration barred the transfer of land in the earmarked areas, according to officials here.

“In many places, officials from the revenue department were chased away by villagers,” a state government official said. However with the Maharashtra Government paying as much as five times the ready reckoner rate for infrastructure projects, officials expect to convince landowners to part with their properties.

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Courtesy: The Tribune

There’s death in the air here: in a village in Rajasthan, silicosis caused by sand mining has reached epidemic-like levels

Khemchand Yadav, 70, and Phoru Lal, 55, are neighbours in Dabi village in Rajasthan’s Bundi district. They have similar physical attributes — eyes like bottomless pits set in hollow cheeks and bones sticking out from frail bodies. They cough and draw deep breaths when they talk. They both suffer from silicosis, the fatal respiratory disease.

For most men in this region, and in the neighbouring districts of Kota and Bhilwara, silicosis killed their fathers and they know it will kill their sons. And despite the 7th Asian Mining Congress held last month in Kolkata, where the head of the Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) admitted that silicosis was a “concern”, nothing looks likely to change soon.

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Courtesy: The Hindu

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