India’s environmental movement is divided and at war
A member of the Nishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh
Schumacher Centre, the organisation behind this blog, has long championed the rights of India’s 80 million-strong tribal population.
Now Schumacher Centre’s Michael Connellan has written in The Guardian newspaper of London on how tribals are being excluded from the debate on how to save India’s precious forests. India’s environmental elite, he argues, are waging a battle to ensure tribes will never hold effective power over their own lands.
Read the article here.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:34 am
Greatings, http://www.schumachercentre.org – da best. Keep it going!