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‘Like killing my children’: former loggers now defend Assam’s forests

Illegal logging is robbing Indians of food, medicine and even saffron to dye monks’ robes. Now local people are fighting backIn the pitch dark, the volunteers walk for hours along roads surrounded by dense forest. They patrol in near silence, listening…

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Leaf blowers and beating branches: the fight to stop India’s forest fires

Thousands of blazes in Similipal national park threaten indigenous peoples and wildlife such as tigers, elephants and orchidsAs the flames move fast, snaking quickly upwards in the treacherous terrain of Similipal national park and turning everything o…

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