The National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) has recently allowed coal mining in Saleki, a part of the Dehing Patkai elephant reserve in Assam. This has brought a serious threat to the tropical rainforest of Assam, famously known as the ‘Amazon of the East’. The region’s biodiversity is already disturbed by illegal mining activities carried out on the behest of the coal mafias. The forest officials are...
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