
India’s nature reserves and surrounding landscapes are caught
in a bind. This bind envelops all: from trees to tigers, rivers to rhinos, and
hornbills to humans. Even as it has become apparent that ecological processes
sustaining life and livelihoods span wide landscapes, government policies are
narrowing the spaces for conservation and sustainable development. New
relaxations of environmental norms by the central government are systematically
giving the go-ahead to projects deemed necess