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Thousands of forest dwellers in Kashmir face eviction
People who live in and depend on forests in Jammu and Kashmir worry they are losing their rights, after eviction notices were issued, structures demolished and fruit trees cut down by the forest department
Posted 14 Dec 2020 in Articles -
Jammu and Kashmir experts stop mining in Jhelum riverbed
The government committee denies environmental clearance, even as illegal riverbed mining continues all over northern India
Posted 26 Nov 2020 in Articles -
Anti-encroachment drive in Kashmir ignores government intrusions
The authorities target encroachments on the Jhelum’s floodplains, ignoring their own buildings or permits to mine the riverbed
Posted 28 Aug 2020 in Articles -
Kashmir now hotspot of illegal riverbed mining
Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the fast-tracking of environmental clearances despite manifest evidence of illegal sand mining
Posted 03 Aug 2020 in Articles -
Cut down poplar trees in Kashmir to check Covid-19 spread, orders government
Authorities say flowering trees will worsen respiratory allergies and therefore the pandemic, but there’s no evidence of this
Posted 09 Apr 2020 in Articles -
Report to National Green Tribunal raises spirits in Kashmir
Authorities promise to restore and preserve wetland
Posted 23 Dec 2019 in Articles&migratet -
Thank the ex-smugglers, and the army
After 50 years, the Indian Army stopped using the Tosamaidan highland meadow in Kashmir as an artillery range and tourists moved in last month, following a sustained campaign by timber smugglers who wanted to turn tour guides
Posted 21 Jun 2016 in Articles -
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The disappearing water bodies of Kashmir
Half of the water bodies in and around Srinagar have disappeared over the last century under the pressure of rapid, and badly managed, urbanisation
Posted 20 Oct 2015 in Articles -
Kashmir red deer could be extinct soon
The Kashmir stag, known as hangul, faces being wiped out in the Kashmir Himalayas because of diminishing habitat, predators and a skewed male-female ratio
Posted 21 Sep 2015 in Articles -
Disaster in conflict zone, conflict over disaster
The September 2014 floods in Jammu and Kashmir exposed the special problems of disaster relief in a conflict zone
Posted 08 Sep 2015 in Blogs