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Nature’s protectors often in line of fire
By Bharati Chaturvedi | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JUL 15, 2019 07:40 AM IST
The South Asia Network on Dams, River and People reports that in 2018, 28 people died across India in sand-mining violence. Not all were officials.
To protect tigers, India needs more better-equipped forest personnel
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON FEB 03, 2019 05:30 PM IST
India is currently the most dangerous country in the world for forest rangers. In 2017, 29 rangers were killed on duty in India; the Democratic Republic of Congo (17) and Thailand (8) made for a distant second and third, says a report of the International Ranger Federation. On January 27, unidentified poachers with weapons hacked to death two guards in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar.