Our environmental regulation is a joke. First, the absurdity that forest destruction in Great Nicobar can be offset via compensatory afforestation in the Aravali. Now, turns out that a fifth of this Aravali land has itself been auctioned off for mining! timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigar…

Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong in this vanity project. Only 12 out of 20 cheetahs survive. Why was this done in the first place? Please read this piece by wildlife expert Ravi Chellam in @thehindu