Scorched Earth: Uttarakhand's road to wildlife destruction

With the recent lifting of a ban on mining and a proposal to build a road through core tiger habitats in Uttarakhand, its fragile ecology is being threatened like never before. The second of a three-part series looks at the fallout of construction near wildlife habitats.

Somewhere between the Corbett and Kalagarh tiger reserve, not far from where Jim Corbett felled the infamous man-eater of Mohan in 1931, a road is presently under construction along the Ramganga to aid economic development of tiny settlements between villages Marchula and Bhikyasen. The case study of this road illustrates several problems caused by