Conference on Biodiversity in Hyderabad

Member of a forest community speaks at the world’s largest conference on biodiversity. Greenpeace together with Kalpavriksh release a new report exposing a catalogue of environmental damage and human rights violations against tribal and other forest dwellers in the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh - under threat from the Indian government’s massive coal expansion programme. The report calls for a moratorium on coal mining, highlighting the violations of constitutional rights of forest communities