Frontline cover package on the Great Nicobar mega infra project.
1) The Great Nicoba sellout: The Editor's note by Vaishna Roy
"When “development” means uprooting people, plundering forests, and selling paradise to profiteers, whose future are we really building?"
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-project-india-development-sustainability-island-archipelago-ecological-donald-trump/article69192295.ece
2) Great Nicobar: Disaster in the making - The Lede by Pankaj Sekhsaria
"The mega project on the island was cleared using incomplete, inaccurate data, grossly underestimating its environmental and biodiversity impact."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-infrastructure-environmental-tragedy/article69158497.ece
3) "The Great Nicobar Project: A costly miscalculation?" - M Rajshekhar
"The proposed container port lacks commercial logic, its naval merits are unclear—so why is this project being pushed through at any cost?"
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-project-campbell-bay-transshipment-terminal-galathea-bay-infrastructure-project/article69159231.ece
4) An obit for Patai Takaru by Rohan Arthur and TR Shankar Raman
"Great Nicobar’s mitigation plans reduce restoration to tree-planting and reef relocation—a deceptive fix for irreversible ecological loss."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-island-andaman-ecological-development-coral-reefs-marine-ecosystems-climate-change/article69158539.ece
5) On the brink: 10 endangered species of the Nicobar Islands by Saurav Harikumar
"The islands are home to a rare mix of wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Here are ten that face the greatest threat from the Great Nicobar project."
https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/great-nicobar-project-endangered-species-saltwater-crocodile-species-wildlife/article69150433.ece