10degreetales

A page for Andaman and Nicobar Islands to celebrate the wilderness and its denizens. Addressing the issues faced by the island ecosystem. #10DT

[Pankaj Sekhsaria @pankajsekh]

The @frontline_india story on Great Nicobar in Hindi via gaon connection; Thnks @JamwalNidhi https://t.co/gUnNSuUMyz @vaishnaroy @chikikothari @shrishtee

[Manish Chandi @manishchandi]

https://t.co/EdkTyU314l

There are 2 letters sent to @PMOIndia & @AmitShah and @AndamanForests & @Andaman_Admin . So far no response. No one wants responsibility over these tribal Islanders ?

[Indian Institute for Human Settlements @iihsin]

Jagdish Krishnaswamy says that the loss of 130 sq km of high biodiversity and high carbon forest in Nicobar will be irreplaceable.

Read the article here: https://t.co/HCDqGuhNu7

@JagdishKrishna8 @ClimateFC @udayonearth @radb06 @LicypriyaK

[Manish Chandi @manishchandi]

https://t.co/O2MyIIvaQ2
The mistake is by referring to it as a 'hodi'.they should've called it by its Nicobarese names (Aap, Reuii, etc). Good move anyway. The variation of craft & skill across the archipelago needs acknowledgement. @nicobartimes_in
@DC_Nicobars
@Nicobarchamber

[Climate Fact Checks @climatefc]

India promotes ‘LiFE’ in COP27 but plans to divert 130.75 sq km of biodiversity-rich forest in Great Nicobar

#GreatNicobar #COP27 #climate #environmental #biodiversity

@JagdishKrishna8 @udayonearth @radb06 @LicypriyaK

https://t.co/EMpBGVdq2C

[10degreetales @10degreetales]

In fact, the suitability certificate of the sites in Haryana hasn't even been submitted yet & if they don't fulfill compensatory afforestation guidelines, de-notified land in MP or states adjoining NCR "maybe identified"! Way to compensate for a million rainforest trees @moefcc!

[10degreetales @10degreetales]

#SaveGreatNicobar #NoPortInGalathea

[Mongabay India @MongabayIndia]

1/9 - Around 8.52 lakh trees will be cut to make way for a major infrastructure and tourism project in Great Nicobar island. The project will lead to diversion of 15 percent of the region’s forest area. 🧵

[Mongabay India @MongabayIndia]

1/9 - Around 8.52 lakh trees will be cut to make way for a major infrastructure and tourism project in Great Nicobar island. The project will lead to diversion of 15 percent of the region’s forest area. 🧵

[International Rights of Nature Tribunal @rontribunal]

⚠️ #RightsofNature Alert: In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, one of the most important nesting sites of the Giant Leatherback turtle in the Indian Ocean is being gravely threatened.

Thread below 👇🧵

#RightsofNatureAlert #NatureAlert

[Pankaj Sekhsaria @pankajsekh]

One more nail in the Great Nicobar coffin as we are set to lose some of the finest tropical forests in India… one of the largest single diversions in recent times. https://t.co/lgmzwlqnf0

[10degreetales @10degreetales]

And soon the locations where the pre-tsunami villages of the southern Nicobarese people used to be, will be dredged, reclaimed and clear-felled for a "holistic" development that excludes the original inhabitants of Great Nicobar Island. They will have no homes to go back to!

[Junglee Suar @Littlenicobar]

"The Nicobarese people who were forcefully relocated want to go back to their homes as they have lost their source of livelihoods, have no jobs. They have even written two letters to the government about it but have not received any response. @TheQuint

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

"As government reconsiders ban, Adani forays into beach sand mining"
https://t.co/YL7AG1kk7D

[Divya Gupta @this_is_divya]

‘In one case, volunteers in the Philippines planted more than a million mangroves in one hour, setting a new world record, but a later analysis found that 98 percent of those seedlings ended up dying or washing away.’ https://t.co/UANwOX5Em0

[NityanandJayaraman @NityJayaraman]

TN to put sea floor on market -- Rs. 1 lakh/sq km
https://t.co/f2J72xmQib

[TVS🌳 @10mae_greenkid]

> 3 lakh trees are being felled in Chattisgarh's Hasdeo forest for a Adani Coal mine.
& these traumatised elephants moving out as their habitat is being destroyed.
There are few elephant habitats left in India &the world Hasdeo being 1 of them is now being destroyed.
#SaveHasdeo

[TVS🌳 @10mae_greenkid]

"Can't stall development over climate change" even if this devp means destroying the ecosystems which protect us from climate change,support the biodiversity & livelihoods of the indigenous communities,
reclaiming 111 hectares of sea in a drowning Mumbaai.
#coastalroad
(1/n)

[Vignesh Annadurai @VigneshAnnadu14]

This is not a pic of a DJ night, its the pic of helpless students of #DBRAIT struggling to breathe becuz of the tear gas, running out of fear of batton charge by the IRBn. #justicefordbraitstudents #DBRAITStudentsProtest
@PMOIndia
save us from our own administration 🙏

[tapasya tofuss @tapasya_umm]

1. #Thread: A Fact Check

Recently Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav
and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh engaged in a heated debate.

Ramesh said Modi government diluted tribal rights. Minister Yadav said no rules or law had been diluted.

Who was telling the truth?