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Planting trees to make up for lost forests is a good deed. But what if this afforestation ends up meting out injustice to forest-dependent people? Cases from two different districts of Jharkhand show how the forest department undertook tree plantation under the controversial Compensatory Afforestation scheme on forest land that was still in use by locals for their primary livelihood. People were using the land for farming or grazing cattle and their incomes have taken a direct hit since the plantation. “I am afraid people will be forced to die by suicide,” said the headman of one of the villages. As India proceeds with its attempts to increase its total forest cover, the improvement is happening at whose expense? Read our ground report from Jharkhand: https://www.indiaspend.com/forest-rig...

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