Diluting laws for development threat to wildlife: Author

Painting a grim picture of the ongoing environmental crisis in India, a new book shows the poor implementation of the country's conservation laws and their dilution to facilitate development.

"The Vanishing: India's Wildlife Crisis" penned by environmentalist Prerna Singh Bindra shows how projects like the Ken-Betwa river link, the expansion of NH 7, and the prospects of Uranium mining among others are advocating development at the expense of the environment.

"India has perhaps the finest conservation laws, but they are poorly implemented, bypassed, ignored, and circumvented.

"The other problem is that the laws and conservation policies are being diluted, largely to accommodate the ease of doing business, to facilitate faster approvals for industries and infrastructure," Bindra told

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