India’s forests are disappearing, but not on paper
On March 30, bulldozers rolled into Kancha Gachibowli, a lush, 400-acre tract of forested land in Hyderabad, a city in India’s southern Telangana state, with sounds of distressed animals echoing in the background.
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India’s forests are disappearing, but not on paper
The country’s biodiversity-rich forests are failing to appear in official records due to non-classification and legal loopholes, leading to fears over their protection