Tuesday, May 12, 2015

How tribal Indians beat big coal firms...

"This is the land of our ancestors, we will never give it up - we'll never leave our forest," sing a group of villagers.

The villagers of Mahan in Madhya Pradesh state are celebrating a hard fought victory.

In March they managed to prevent their land and the adjoining forest from being mined for coal by two of India's leading energy companies.

It was a campaign that lasted two years with the help of the international environmental pressure group, Greenpeace.

"Our livelihood would have gone. What would we have eaten?" says Kanti Singh Khairwar.

"The company would have uprooted the entire forest. We would have died." Full story...

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