Kerala nonsense
Kerala nonsense has reached new heights. The state now wants a law letting officials authorize anyone to kill or capture tigers and elephants labeled “dangerous.” They call it practicality. In truth, it’s legalized slaughter wrapped in bureaucratic language.
Wild animals stray into villages because forests are shrinking. Kerala’s tea and coffee plantations keep expanding into tiger habitat, with owners protected by political ties. Corridors vanish under estates and roads, yet the government refuses to confront its cronies. Instead, it pushes the lazy option: guns, cages, and executions. As our cornerstone on Political Failure and Corruption shows, such policies are deliberate, not accidental.
This amendment would normalize violence while avoiding real accountability. Where is the financial survey into plantation profits gained from stolen land? Where is the cost analysis of ecological collapse?
Kerala nonsense is reckless policymaking, sacrificing wildlife to shield political and economic allies. If it passes, India’s tigers will not fall to poachers, but to its own government.
The Kerala nonsense article
Based on The New Indian Express, India
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