Buxwaha forest issue
Do you know why Buxwaha is in limelight? You should read about it because it has everything to do with your life. Diamond Mining Project is facing a lot of protests these days by some organisations as well as by the citizens of the country. This project had been shown green signal by Kamalnath (Indian National Congress) lead state government of Madhya Pradesh in 2018 and the Essel mining or Aditya Birla Group was given permission to mine diamonds in the area after an auction. According to a report, this project for digging diamonds will be pushing many a things at risk : 1. It would include cutting more than 215000 trees in the region. 2. Many plant and animal species will also be at risk. 3. Tiger conservation would be affected 4. More than 7000 tribal people will lose their livelihoods that they get from the forest. Apart from this all , Bundelkhand is a drought-prone area where this water intensive diamond mining is to take place. This project would need 590...