Madhav Gadgil, advocate of democratic conservation, has died at 83

Mongabay
Jan 8, 2026, 7:39 pm144 pts
In India, arguments about nature are often treated as friction in the path of progress. Madhav Gadgil insisted they were arguments about power: who gets to decide what happens to a forest, a river, a hillside, and on what evidence. He made that case as a scientist, and then made it again as a citizen who did…

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