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| Imam, B. | |
| A study of the crisis of the wildlife corridors and hatitats in the North Karanpura Valley of Hazaribagh as a result of the North Karanpura coalfield project | |
| 1996 Full Book | |
The coal mining in the Damodar Valley is not a new phenomenon. It has to be studied in the present context of mining the North Karanpura Valley, which is a forested and pristine habitat with tribal villages and agriculture, with relation to the developments and strategies used by governments in the past in the damming and mining of the Damodar river on which it forms the uppermost watershed. We have to see how this has affected both the tribals and forests. It has deprived them of indigenous and ancestral rights over their culture and life style, their religion and sacred sites, and the forests and waterways forming their environment. These mining operations, starting immediately to the south and east of the valley in South Karanpura and Ramgarh mining blocks, have destroyed areas of mega biodiversity and ancient migratory corridors, including those of elephants, in the quite recent past Tiger, gaur, leopard, and other threatened species have likewise been affected by destruction of habitat and forest corridors that in the past liked important stretches of jungle. |
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