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No-Go or gone

Blog entry by Swati Mehta | January 28, 2011

Forests always make for interesting stories. Jungle lore always fascinated me as a child.  Tigers, lions, bears, monkeys and elephants made better protagonists than humans then. The ultimate dream as a city bred child was to walk in a...

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  • 34,000 say ‘forests are a..

34,000 say ‘forests are a No Go’. Minister Pranab Mukherjee says let's meet

Blog entry by Preethi Herman | February 22, 2011

As the train sped through the forest in Vidharbha, Maharashtra, I looked out of the window barely able to take my eyes away from the rich green that engulfed me. At that moment, I just had one thought in my mind- in a short while, if...

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  • Fools don’t clear forests,..

Fools don’t clear forests, they save them

Blog entry by Saira Sayani | June 16, 2011

I can’t stand the thought of deforestation! It is something that sneaks up on you and hits you right in the face, a big stunning, SMACK! It was turning out to be one of those uneventful, mundane days and suddenly this thought...

Become a Fool for Forests

Become a Fool for Forests

Video | June 22, 2011 at 18:12

Forests are being threatened by coal mining. The government plans to mine coal in the forests of Central and Eastern India. A lot of communities and wildlife depend on these forests. Those who want to save the forests are being called fools.

  • Become a Fool for Forests
Become a Fool for Forests

Become a Fool for Forests

Video | June 22, 2011 at 18:12

Forests are being threatened by coal mining. The government plans to mine coal in the forests of Central and Eastern India. A lot of communities and wildlife depend on these forests. Those who want to save the forests are being called fools.

  • Become a Fool for Forests
Become a Fool for Forests

Become a Fool for Forests

Video | June 22, 2011 at 18:12

Forests are being threatened by coal mining. The government plans to mine coal in the forests of Central and Eastern India. A lot of communities and wildlife depend on these forests. Those who want to save the forests are being called fools.

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  • Government panel writes off..

Government panel writes off forests for coal mining: Greenpeace

Press release | August 1, 2011 at 14:11

New Delhi, 29th July, 2011: Reacting to the recommendations by the government panel appointed by the Group of Ministers debating the issue of ‘No Go’, Greenpeace Policy Officer Priya Pillai said, “This recommendation is exactly what the PMO...

Singrauli: The Coal Curse

Publication | September 15, 2011 at 16:54

Greenpeace organised a Fact Finding Mission to Singrauli – the energy capital of the country and home to tribal communities, forest dwellers and some of the most threatened forests remaining in Central India. The Singrauli region spreads across...

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  • Fact finding team documents..

Fact finding team documents coal-induced displacement and destruction in Singrauli

Press release | September 15, 2011 at 17:00

New Delhi, 15 September, 2011: ‘Singrauli: The Coal Curse’ a report was released today by retired Justice Suresh Hosbet, a member of a Fact Finding team that visited the area in July this year. (1) The report documented the impacts of unbridled...

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  • Greenpeace releases report..

Greenpeace releases report on displacement and destruction by coal mining in Singrauli

Press release | September 22, 2011 at 12:50

Baidhan, Singrauli District, 22 September, 2011: ‘Singrauli: The Coal Curse’ a report was released today by Greenpeace at a public meeting in Baidhan. The meeting was attended by people from villages affected by the coal mining and thermal power...

  • Tiger action at Coal..
Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Video | December 1, 2011 at 14:32

Forests in Central India are being threatened by the coal ministry's ambition to mine more coal. These forests are home to a large number of tigers and other wildlife species. They also provide livelihood to millions of people. Coal mining will...

  • Tiger action at Coal..
Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Video | December 1, 2011 at 14:32

Forests in Central India are being threatened by the coal ministry's ambition to mine more coal. These forests are home to a large number of tigers and other wildlife species. They also provide livelihood to millions of people. Coal mining will...

Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Tiger action at Coal ministry's office

Video | December 1, 2011 at 14:32

Forests in Central India are being threatened by the coal ministry's ambition to mine more coal. These forests are home to a large number of tigers and other wildlife species. They also provide livelihood to millions of people. Coal mining will...

Campaign to save forests reaches the coal ministry's doorstep

Campaign to save forests reaches the coal ministry's doorstep

Feature story | December 5, 2011 at 13:19

Anticipating high security and only a few minutes outside Shastri Bhawan, Greenpeace India activists successfully blocked the main gate of the Ministry of Coal office by placing 18 life size tigers chained to the gates. Three tiger mascots, 2...

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  • Republic of Junglistan..

Republic of Junglistan reaches Bangalore

Blog entry by Shiva Sharma | December 6, 2011

After meeting people in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, Bhaloo and Sheroo finally reached Bangalore, the Garden City. The embassy of Junglistan was set up at Cubbon park, a place known for its preserved green cover. Soon, Bhaloo and...

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  • "Minister Jaiswal, We are..
"Minister Jaiswal, We are Watching!"

"Minister Jaiswal, We are Watching!"

Blog entry by Preethi Herman | December 8, 2011

It was probably a regular morning for most other people, but for a bunch of us armed with tiger props and an agenda to meet Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, it was a roaring success! I am referring to the morning Greenpeace...

Undermining Tadoba's Tigers

Publication | January 9, 2012 at 18:00

This report shows that Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) is fast becoming an isolated enclave, with landscape connectivity to neighbouring forest areas being interrupted by industrial projects, primarily coal mines.

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  • Abhay Deol supports forests..

Abhay Deol supports forests in Singrauli

Press release | January 11, 2012 at 16:42

New Delhi/Singrauli, 11 January, 2012: Actor Abhay Deol became a Greenpeace activist today as he joined the campaign against forest destruction for coal production. He flew in a hot air balloon over the rich forests in Mahan in the Singrauli...

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  • सिंगरौंली के जंगल बचाने के..

सिंगरौंली के जंगल बचाने के समर्थक हैं फिल्म स्टार अभय देओल

Press release | January 11, 2012 at 17:17

नई दिल्ली / सिंगरौली, 11 जनवरी, 2012­- फिल्म अभिनेता अभय देओल भी आज ग्रीनपीस कार्यकर्ता बन गये। वह न केवल कोयला खनन के लिए जंगलों की बलि देने के खिलाफ चल रहे ग्रीनपीस के अभियान में शामिल हो गये बल्कि खतरे में पडे मध्य प्रदेश के सिंगरौली जिले में...

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  • Republic of Junglistan..
Republic of Junglistan becomes a star attraction

Republic of Junglistan becomes a star attraction

Blog entry by Swati Mehta | January 13, 2012

If you are not a citizen of Junglistan yet, you are missing out on a lot of things. For one thing is certain, the Republic of Junglistan is a country that never sleeps. "Why this Koyla (coal) mining di?" Just before 2011...

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  • Government wants coal,..
Government wants coal, people want forests

Government wants coal, people want forests

Blog entry by Nambie | June 5, 2012

"Jungle toh munshi ka hain." These words stayed with me throughout and even after my stay in Singrauli, the so called energy capital of the country. We travelled to Singrauli, deep inside the Mahan forest to bear witness to the...

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  • Greenpeace challenges GVK..

Greenpeace challenges GVK on disclosure

Press release | June 12, 2012 at 18:34

Mumbai, 12 June 2012: Greenpeace has lodged a complaint against GVK with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange regarding its massive proposed Alpha coal project in Australia...

Coal versus Forest

Coal versus Forest

Hub | July 19, 2012 at 17:15

We must stop the Government from cutting down giant areas of forest in Central India to get the coal that lies beneath.

How coal mining is trashing tigerland

How coal mining is trashing tigerland

Publication | August 1, 2012 at 18:35

This report makes the case that the biggest threat to the long term survival of the Royal Bengal Tiger in its largest contiguous landscape- Central India- has been overlooked by the Indian government and its administrative machinery. That threat...

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  • Coal mining threatens over..

Coal mining threatens over 1.1 million ha. of forest, tiger, elephant habitat

Press release | August 1, 2012 at 20:10

August 1, 2012, New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Even as the environment ministry continues to come under renewed pressure to fast track coal mining in forest areas, a GIS analysis released by Greenpeace titled “How Coal Mining is Trashing Tigerland” shows...

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  • Coal kills people and..
Coal kills people and tigers. And now it isn’t even cheap.

Coal kills people and tigers. And now it isn’t even cheap.

Blog entry by Ashish Fernandes | August 2, 2012

It's no secret that coal pollution kills people; it's now increasingly clear that expanding coal mining is destroying significant areas of tiger, leopard and elephant habitat in India. Recent GIS analysis by Greenpeace shows that coal...

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  • Cluster of thermal power..

Cluster of thermal power plants may escalate Vidarbha's existing agrarian crisis:...

Press release | August 7, 2012 at 17:07

New Delhi, 7th August 2012: In the backdrop of a drought looming over the country, a new report (1) released by Greenpeace has found that large clusters of coal fired power plants proposed in Vidarbha may bring down the future availability of...

Impact of Water Resources Projects-Case Study Wardha

Publication | August 8, 2012 at 18:30

Vidarbha region in Maharastra has a long history of under development. Many measures to offset the agrarian crisis in the region like the Prime Minister's debt relief assistance in 2006 has focussed extensively on developing assured irrigation...

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  • Greenpeace to Prime..

Greenpeace to Prime Minister: Defend forests not coal scams

Press release | August 21, 2012 at 15:01

New Delhi, August 21, 2012: Even as Parliament was debating the CAG report, Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant 60 ft by 60 ft banner that said 'Dr Singh Defend Forests not Coal Scams' on Rajpath, the road leading to the PMO. The Environment...

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  • Did you just ask me, "Why..
Did you just ask me, "Why support Junglistan?"

Did you just ask me, "Why support Junglistan?"

Blog entry by Akshey Kalra | August 22, 2012

The country wants energy, government and corporates want money. Does anyone 'need' forests? The coal mining companies are mining where ever they find it easy to mine coal. Their mining practices are highly inefficient because...

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  • Everything about the coal scam
Everything about the coal scam

Everything about the coal scam

Blog entry by Arundhati Muthu | August 22, 2012

The CAG report on the coal block allocations scam was finally tabled in Parliament on August 17th. Though the staggering figure of Rs 1.86 lakh crores mentioned in the final report, is less than a sixth of the original figure of Rs 10...

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Greenpeace activist to occupy a tree in Chandrapur forest for 1 month

Press release | August 29, 2012 at 16:35

August 29th, 2012, Nagpur: India is hosting the 11th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October this year to discuss conservation of biodiversity. “It is ironical that my government, which is writing...

Greenpeace activist to live on a tree to protect our forests

Feature story | September 2, 2012 at 13:30

Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh climbed an Anjan tree in Chandrapur, Maharashtra on Saturday, 1st September. What’s so special about climbing a tree you might ask? Well, Brikesh is not coming down in a hurry; in fact he is going to live on this...

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Junglistan diaries: Padmapur forests, residence for a month

Junglistan diaries: Padmapur forests, residence for a month

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 5, 2012

1st September 2012 It was only when I woke up in the morning that the feeling started sinking in. I am actually going to be spending a month in the middle of the forest! The excitement started at 2 am in the morning when almost 8...

  • Brikesh arrives at the tree..
Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Video | September 6, 2012 at 18:43

Taking the protest against coal mining to the next level, Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh has occupied a tree in a forest on the edge of a coal mine in Chandrapur, Maharastra. He'll leave after a month and deliver 100,000 signatures to the...

  • Brikesh arrives at the tree..
Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Video | September 6, 2012 at 18:43

Taking the protest against coal mining to the next level, Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh has occupied a tree in a forest on the edge of a coal mine in Chandrapur, Maharastra. He'll leave after a month and deliver 100,000 signatures to the...

Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Brikesh arrives at the tree house

Video | September 6, 2012 at 18:43

Taking the protest against coal mining to the next level, Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh has occupied a tree in a forest on the edge of a coal mine in Chandrapur, Maharastra. He'll leave after a month and deliver 100,000 signatures to the...

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  • Junglistan diaries: let the images talk

Junglistan diaries: let the images talk

Image gallery | September 10, 2012
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  • Junglistan diaries: let the images talk

Junglistan diaries: let the images talk

Image gallery | September 10, 2012

Junglistan diaries: let the images talk

Image gallery | September 10, 2012

Brikesh's journey

Page | September 10, 2012 at 14:09

Brikesh Singh, a Greenpeace activist, is living atop a tree in a forest-at-risk in Chandrapur, Maharashtra. He is protesting against the government's plan to mine coal in these forests. He'll be living here for a month. At end of his stay he will...

Junglistan diaries: Visitors, cobras and mine blasts

Junglistan diaries: Visitors, cobras and mine blasts

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 10, 2012

Day 10 at the tree house. By now I have seen and heard twenty blasts in the coal mine, two snakes including a cobra, and a trail of a rock python. I have had around 280 visitors, oldest being 68 years old. I saw the river getting...

Foot spa and bamboo shoot curry in Junglistan

Foot spa and bamboo shoot curry in Junglistan

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 12, 2012

How many of you have paid thousands to get this treatment done in spas? Well I have always been curious about these treatments. But I the idea finding it out in a spa, was not too appealing. Here in Junglistan, this is one of the...

A living room in the forests

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 13, 2012

I saw this beautiful moth sitting on the neighbouring tree. It's the Indian Silk Worm Moth, its scientific name is Antheraea Paphia. © Brikesh Singh / Greenpeace. Twelve days already. I’ve had a fish spa, showers in the rain,...

Junglistan Diaries: the writing's on the wall

Junglistan Diaries: the writing's on the wall

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 14, 2012

If you can read your name here then you are a hero. Today I started writing names of all the people, who have signed the petition, on the tree house. Every time I feel a little low, I'll look at these names and take inspiration...

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Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Video | September 18, 2012 at 15:06

The government's plant to mine coal in the forests of Central India will destroy wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of communities dependent on these forests. Greenpeace India has been campaigning against coal mining, and wants the...

  • Activists occupy trees..
Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Video | September 18, 2012 at 15:06

The government's plant to mine coal in the forests of Central India will destroy wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of communities dependent on these forests. Greenpeace India has been campaigning against coal mining, and wants the...

Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Activists occupy trees outside Coal Ministry

Video | September 18, 2012 at 15:06

The government's plant to mine coal in the forests of Central India will destroy wildlife and the livelihoods of thousands of communities dependent on these forests. Greenpeace India has been campaigning against coal mining, and wants the...

Junglistan Diaries: routine visits and some special ones

Blog entry by Brikesh Singh | September 18, 2012

It's been two weeks in the forests. These buffaloes and the Cattle Egret are regular visitiors to the stream now. Or perhaps I am the visitor for them. I had some very special guests from the nearby village. The women had taken...

Forest vs coal. I choose forests

Forest vs coal. I choose forests

Blog entry by Rachita Taneja | September 19, 2012

When my colleague told me that I was going to go to the forests to work on a tree house- I gave myself a mental high five. What could be cooler than chilling in a forest for a week? I was to accompany three activists, who had helped...

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