How the Villagers Kept Builders Away from Their Forests
From battling it out in courts to marching in streets and pushing for government action, it took 6 years of efforts to save the 677-acre Mangar Bani forest between polluted Delhi and rapidly urbanizing Gurgaon. Villagers started the protest, once they realized that real estate agents were trying to buy the land, and blocked the takeover.
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