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India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe

Exclusive: $9bn port, airport and military base on Great Nicobar Island will cause ‘genocide’ of isolated Shompen, academics warnAcademics from around the world have urged India to cancel a huge construction project on Great Nicobar Island, warning it …

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‘We are powerless’: Indian villagers live in fear of torture in fight against bauxite mine

Adivasis in Banteji say they also face arrests, violence and harassment by police and company officialsFor months, they have been living in fear. The people of Banteji, a small tribal village amid the rolling green mountains deep in India’s Odisha stat…

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Great pretender: the bird with an Elvis-like quiff that can’t stop mimicking

Scientists are learning the secrets of the greater racket-tailed drongo and other creatures in a jungle in south India from the people who have always lived thereIn the dense forests of south India’s Western Ghats, you may be lucky enough to spot a gre…

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‘They fired at everyone’: peril of Pakistani villagers protesting giant luxury estate

Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was taken with forceMuhammad Anwar was not aware of any danger when he took the day off work to join his friends at a demonstration …

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