India orders 'staggering' eviction of 1 million indigenous people. Some environmentalists are cheeri

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Source: Washington Post

India orders ‘staggering’ eviction of 1 million indigenous people. Some environmentalists are cheering.

Supreme Court decision would render vulnerable population homeless

By Niha Masih February 22 at 7:30 AM
NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court has ordered its government to evict a million people from their homes — for the good of the country’s wildlife.

The ruling, issued Wednesday, was a startling conclusion to a decade-long case that has pitted the rights of some of India’s most vulnerable citizens against the preservation of its forests.

The court told the government to evict over a million people — mostly members of indigenous tribes — from their homes in public forest land because they had not met the legal criterion to live there.

With more than 700 tribal groups, India is home to over 100 million indigenous people. While the forest land is legally controlled by the government, people have lived in such areas for centuries.

A landmark law passed in 2006 gave legal rights over forest land and its produce to tribes and forest-dwelling communities provided they could prove their families have stayed there for at least three generations.

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[RKP5637]

1. The planet Earth, can be a very cruel place! Incredible!!! n/t

[elleng]

2. 'for the good of the country's wildlife.'

[mopinko]

3. i dunno. i have been to india.

the pressures of the population there are something we cant really appreciate here.
i drove some long country roads that looked like the moon.
the trees on public property are painted white so people dont cut them down for firewood.

all these peoples, here and everywhere, who are threatened by a changing climate and changing world need to be taken care of.
instead of bulldozing them, we need to build sustainable communities that they want to move to.
i dont think very many people will cling to subsistence lives if there is better available.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Where will they go? More slums in India?