Indian forest activist Alok Shukla awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize

Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of India’s conglomerates – including one operated by Adani Group, helmed by Asia’s second-richest man.

Deep in an Indian forest, activist Alok Shukla greets friendly faces among a small band of protesters sitting in the way of plans to turn the surrounding wilderness into coal mines.

Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of India’s conglomerates – including one operated by Adani Group, helmed by Asia’s second-richest man – seeking to tap one of the country’s richest subterranean stores of fossil fuels.

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