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<loc>https://en.themooknayak.com/environment/maharashtra-the-forest-they-stole-in-the-name-of-the-tiger-conservation</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The tribals and other forest dwellers whose labour has shaped the forest landscape of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, and in return forest was providing them with their livelihood, until unless forest dwellers’s rights were not encroached. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The dispossession has been conducted in the name of tiger conservation where the existence of tribals and other forest dwellers has been declared illegal which is backed by the state ideological apparatuses.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ women in a gram sabha  ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The forest is made “cheap” by removing its human caretakers, so it can be sold at a premium to those who can afford to experience the resulting silence. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Chandrapur, Maharashtra.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://en.themooknayak.com/farmer/beneath-the-barren-fields-of-panna-how-falling-groundwater-is-drowning-a-farming-community</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Many wells and borewells now dry up before summer fully arrives, leaving farmers struggling for irrigation water during cultivation.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The water crisis now threatens the very survival of farming communities.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Farmers claim farming no longer supports families the way it once did. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[  For many farmers, access to water is directly linked to dignity, food security and survival. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Experts warn that if groundwater depletion continues at the current pace, agriculture in the region could face severe consequences in the coming years, and parts of the farmland may eventually turn barren.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-06-07T10:02:53.954+05:30</lastmod>
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