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Illegal Logging and Deforestation in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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Public canonical key

doi:10.1300/j091v19n01_14

Authors

Pankaj Sekhsaria

Reported year

2004

Reported language

en

Source type

article

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2026-11-09T19:13:14.427769+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:13:14.427769+00:00

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Kalpavriksh

Documentary abstract — original language

This study looks at deforestation and legal rights to forest resources on the island of Little Andaman, in the Andaman and Nicobar Island group, an Indian territory located in the Bay of Bengal. The island is the home of the Onge—a threatened indigenous community of Negrito origin. The island was clothed in tropical evergreen forests and inhabited only by the Onge through the middle of the 20th Century. In the 1960s, the Government of India introduced major development and colonization programs for the island. These programs have destroyed vast areas of forest and have severely affected the Onge. Over the last 35 years, roughly 30% of the island has been taken over by outsiders for settlements, agriculture, timber extraction, and plantations. These developments have adversely affected the island's flora and fauna as well as the Onge themselves. This paper reports findings from a series of investigations starting in 1998. Logging operators and government agencies have systematically violated both the laws and the resources of Little Andaman. A coalition of Indian social and environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) initiated legal action to stop the deforestation in 1999. These efforts led to landmark injunctions on all timber felling operations in the islands by the Supreme Court of India in October 2001 and May 2002.

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OPENALEX

W1511550460

DOI

10.1300/j091v19n01_14

Documentary context

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Scholarship

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article

Jurisdictions studied — explicit sources

IN

Natural entities mentioned

Forest · Territory

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OpenAlex · Record 1 · Record 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1300/j091v19n01_14
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W1511550460

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• openalex:w1596649068 · CITES
• openalex:w2300983067 · CITES
• openalex:w636636182 · CITES

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