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View from Elephant HillsHere’s something I want you to read, something that simply had to be said, even as I wish for a world where something like this would never have needed to be written. Here’s why.First, it concerns a proposed project so monumental in its ambitions as in its folly, and so egregious in its likely destruction of vulnerable human lives and ecologies that it deserves all the attention, critique, […]<a href="https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://shankarraman.in/2025/05/22/great-nicobar-greenwashing-a-catastrophe/</a>

T. R. Shankar RamanPowerful piece by Ramachandra Guha on the planned ecological and social disaster that is the <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> infrastructure and transhipment terminal project. <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#restoration</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/islands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#islands</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Andamans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andamans</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Nicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nicobar</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/tribals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tribals</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/shipping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shipping</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/destructiveDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#destructiveDevelopment</a> <a href="https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/destruction-foretold-the-planned-disaster-of-the-great-nicobar-island-prnt/cid/2092519" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/destruction-foretold-the-planned-disaster-of-the-great-nicobar-island-prnt/cid/2092519</a>

T. R. Shankar RamanIn the superb new issue of <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Frontline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frontline</a>... a piece by Rohan Arthur and myself:An obit for Patai Takaru "Great Nicobar’s mitigation plans reduce <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/restoration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#restoration</a> to tree-planting and reef relocation—a deceptive fix for irreversible <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecological</a> loss." <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/islands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#islands</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Andamans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andamans</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conservation</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a>

T. R. Shankar RamanA scathing, devastating critique of the outrageous, thoughtlessly destructive, and ecologically damaging <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> infrastructure project, by Pankaj Sekhsaria in <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Frontline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frontline</a>. Everyone concerned with <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a>, <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a>, and <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> in <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a> should be deeply troubled by this disastrous project and how it's being pushed through. <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-infrastructure-environmental-tragedy/article69158497.ece" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-infrastructure-environmental-tragedy/article69158497.ece</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Andamans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andamans</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/Nicobars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nicobars</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/islands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#islands</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/shipping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shipping</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tourism</a> <a href="https://biodiversity.social/tags/AndamanNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndamanNicobar</a>

T R Shankar Raman (has moved)The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> project is likely to have disastrous effects on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/island" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#island</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rainforest</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#marine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>... Sad that this huge., destructive project is being rushed through. <a href="https://scroll.in/article/1076098/why-the-great-nicobar-project-could-spell-doom-for-the-islands-unique-fauna" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scroll.in/article/1076098/why-the-great-nicobar-project-could-spell-doom-for-the-islands-unique-fauna</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/andamanandnicobarislands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#andamanandnicobarislands</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/threatenedspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#threatenedspecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/primates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#primates</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seaturtles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seaturtles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endemicspecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endemicspecies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transshipment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transshipment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indianocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indianocean</a>

T R Shankar Raman (has moved)An <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecological</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#social</a> disaster this project will surely be, but looks like it's gonna be an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economic</a> disaster, too! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shippingnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shippingnews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/andamanandnicobarislands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#andamanandnicobarislands</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indianocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indianocean</a> <a href="https://scroll.in/article/1076167/the-proposed-rs-36000-crore-port-in-great-nicobar-may-be-economically-unsound-experts-warn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scroll.in/article/1076167/the-proposed-rs-36000-crore-port-in-great-nicobar-may-be-economically-unsound-experts-warn</a>

T R Shankar Raman (has moved)The enormous tragedy set to befall <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> is a "legally-sanitised" disaster wrought by bureaucratic sleight-of-hand, executive callousness, and judicial lapses. As Pankaj Sekhsaria writes, it can even make the most valuable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> sanctuary disappear. <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/wildlife-sanctuary-great-nicobar-island-9499941/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/wildlife-sanctuary-great-nicobar-island-9499941/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AndamanandNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndamanandNicobar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oceans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coasts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greatnicobarproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greatnicobarproject</a>

Knowledge Zone<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarClusters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarClusters</a> give birth like dogs, not humans, ALMA shows : MediumExtreme <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Heat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Heat</a> is a global <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Killer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Killer</a> — and worse for our <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Health</a> than previously thought, new research shows : MiscRemote Island of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> Threatened by Container Terminal : Sci AmCheck our latest <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KnowledgeLinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KnowledgeLinks</a><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks</a>

Lyla MehtaGreat Nicobar Island Is a Paradise in Danger A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/remote-island-of-great-nicobar-threatened-by-container-terminal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/remote-island-of-great-nicobar-threatened-by-container-terminal/</a>

EdenDestroyerOriginally Posted by IndiaNewsWatch @ kolektiva dot socialIndia’s ‘Alternative To Hong Kong’ Proceeds In Lush Nicobar Island, As Govt Ignores Pleas Of Local TribalsOver the past 17 years, and most recently in 2022, hunter-gatherers, fisherfolk & farmers of a Nicobarese tribe—inhabiting a rainforest-draped island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years—have pleaded with the union government to return them to their ancestral land. But with a Rs 72,000-crore plan to build a giant port, international airport, power plant and tourism facilities by cutting about a million trees in 130 sq km of rainforest, the government has erected a wall of silence to their requests to return home.Link:<a href="https://article-14.com/post/india-s-alternative-to-hong-kong-proceeds-in-lush-nicobar-island-as-govt-ignores-pleas-of-local-tribals-64fa9d1da1bed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://article-14.com/post/india-s-alternative-to-hong-kong-proceeds-in-lush-nicobar-island-as-govt-ignores-pleas-of-local-tribals-64fa9d1da1bed</a>Tags: <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/AndamanNicobarIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndamanNicobarIslands</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/nicobarese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nicobarese</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/TribalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TribalRights</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/ForestRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ForestRights</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/andamans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#andamans</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/RainForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RainForests</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/EcoDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcoDestruction</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/displacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#displacement</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/UnionGovt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnionGovt</a> <a href="https://solarpunk.moe/tags/india" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#india</a>

IndiaNewsWatchIndia’s ‘Alternative To Hong Kong’ Proceeds In Lush Nicobar Island, As Govt Ignores Pleas Of Local TribalsOver the past 17 years, and most recently in 2022, hunter-gatherers, fisherfolk & farmers of a Nicobarese tribe—inhabiting a rainforest-draped island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years—have pleaded with the union government to return them to their ancestral land. But with a Rs 72,000-crore plan to build a giant port, international airport, power plant and tourism facilities by cutting about a million trees in 130 sq km of rainforest, the government has erected a wall of silence to their requests to return home.<a href="https://article-14.com/post/india-s-alternative-to-hong-kong-proceeds-in-lush-nicobar-island-as-govt-ignores-pleas-of-local-tribals-64fa9d1da1bed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://article-14.com/post/india-s-alternative-to-hong-kong-proceeds-in-lush-nicobar-island-as-govt-ignores-pleas-of-local-tribals-64fa9d1da1bed</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AndamanNicobarIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndamanNicobarIslands</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nicobarese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nicobarese</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatNicobar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatNicobar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TribalRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ForestRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deforestation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/andamans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#andamans</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RainForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RainForests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcoDestruction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/displacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#displacement</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnionGovt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnionGovt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/india" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#india</a>

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