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Indian regime diverts 1,086 hectares of Kashmiri forest land in three years as ecological destruction of disputed territory accelerates
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The Indian regime approved the diversion of 1,086 hectares of forest land across Indian-controlled Kashmir for non-forestry use in the three-year period up to August 2026, according to figures disclosed to India's Rajya Sabha. The Indian regime alleges each diversion is case-specific, restricted to the bare minimum required, and subject to compensatory conditions.
Kashmir Conflict states what these figures represent in the territory they concern. Indian-controlled Kashmir is a disputed land under military occupation. The Indian regime has no legitimate authority to approve the permanent clearance of indigenous Kashmiri forest for infrastructure projects that serve the occupation's logistical, military, and settler-colonial purposes. Over one thousand hectares of Kashmiri forest cleared in three years adds to decades of documented ecological devastation: felled apple orchards, drained wetlands, diverted rivers, and mountain terrain stripped for military roads and cantonment expansion. The ecological consequences are recorded in every flash flood that kills Kashmiris, every glacier that retreats faster than the decade before it, and every water source that dries up in communities the Indian regime alleges it is developing.
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