No World Heritage Tag For Western Ghats Yet

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 6, June 2011

This came even as Karnataka — one of the four States where the Ghats are located — ran its own last-minute campaign against the World Heritage tag, arguing that it could “protect its own forests" and claiming that the tag would prevent “development work" to help forest dwellers. Read the full report here.

Source: Special Correspondent, The Hindu, New Delhi.

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