Rio Tinto’s Exit from India: Did Tigers Trump Diamonds?

Environment & Forest, India by lalitshastri

In declining approvals to Rio Tinto, prima facie, the Environment Ministry deemed tiger habitat more precious that the diamonds underneath. For once, biodiversity concerns trumped the ‘development rhetoric’. But, did they? – Divya Narain
                                              

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