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Entire Western ghats mountain tops cut off with roads and plundered hillsides. Not a shrub or green leaf in sight, such a distant cry from the verdant hills beyond. How heavily licensed and approved is this mining operation that seems to be destroying our Ghats forests and ruining prime bird and insect habitat. Is iron ore mining so extractively destructive? Can there be no better way? Is all this legal and licensed? Is the Indian environmental lobby aware of such happenings? Pillage and plunder of Western Ghats: Aerial view of Sandur Iron Ire mines in Karnataka Iron Ore pre-processing at Sundur, Karnataka: Mining is destroying the virgin hills of Western Ghats Forest tracts cut up by rough roads that carry heavy trucks with mined stone, ores and materials in them, spewing diesel fumes. Th
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