India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields

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Author
Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Year
2020
Published in
Guardian News & Media Limited

Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and biodiverse Indian forest, has pitted indigenous people, ancient trees, elephants and sloth bears against the might of bulldozers, trucks and hydraulic jacks, fighting with a single purpose: the extraction of coal.

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