The reasons for India's shrinking forest cover which endangers wildlife and people's livelihoods can be easily seen at Rajaji National Park as men cut trees in the gaze of wardens.
An army of men from a nomadic tribe who have made the national park home hack at trees with axes in a bid to get fuel for cooking and money from selling the timber -- within walking distance of the people hired to guard the trees.
"It's very difficult to stop them because they are dependent on the forest, and besides we have orders from the National Human Rights Commission to provide them grazing rights until their relocation," park director G.S. Pande says.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2005/04/30/2003252587Maybe there wouldn't be so many poor if the government wasn't so corrupt as Bush type families embezzle? What if foreign corporations paid the people of India a living wage?
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