On 7th April 2020, when India was under a national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Standing Committee of the National Board of Wildlife (NBWL) held a virtual meeting and discussed 31 proposals regarding projects inside or within 10km of protected area. 26 of these projects were approved, of which 9 are for limestone mining near Mukundra Tiger Reserve; we’ve bundled these up together to prepare the 18 stories in the story map below.

Since most citizens are unlikely to read through the dry and detailed minutes of official meetings (PDF here), this story map is meant to be representative and informative of the projects approved in that meeting which, barring a few, we would be unlikely to hear of otherwise.