Scars still remain on the hills of Nilgiris, or the Blue Mountains. The brown patches are not only testimony to the hundreds of landslides that killed around 50 people last November, but also of what over-exploitation and the real estate boom has done to the fragile ecosystem of the verdant Queen of the Hills.
However, no one seems to have learnt anything.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/clouds-gather-over-blue-mountains
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/pioneer-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nilgiri
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ooty
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landslides
