People from the Dongria Kondh tribe report having disturbed dreams in which their sacred mountain speaks to them. 
 
It says, ‘If I die, you die too’”.
 
The mountain is Niyamgiri, the home place of the Kondh people in Orissa, Eastern India.
 
Thousands of Kondh people are fighting to save themselves and their environment from destruction. 
 
British company Vendanta Resources and it subsidiary Sterlite Industries, have applied for permission to blast the Niyamgiri Mountain in order to extract  – the raw material for aluminium – despite the environmental and human rights violations this would involve.
 
This short-term profit-making scheme would mean forcing the Kondh people off their land on which they have lived sustainably for generations, making them vulnerable to hunger and poverty. 

It would involve decapitating the Niyamgiri Mountain which – as their god and protector - is sacred to them. And it would involve widespread environmental devastation - threatening 670 hectares of hills and forests - destroying a unique, wildlife-rich ecosystem, drying up streams, reducing the flow of two of South Orissa’s main rivers and polluting local water supplies.
 
Although financially poor, the Kondh people are rich in resources from the forests.  Niyamgiri provides them with sustainable sources of food, water and livelihood – enabling them to live in balance with the environment they have protected for generations.
 
The destruction of the world's wildernesses and the disregard of the rights of people who live there may have implications for all of us.

Mining Niyamgiri would involve transgressing local and national laws and international conventions on tribal people’s rights and biodiversity. 

Niyamgiri is a test of whether corporate responsibility, environmental protection and human rights are practised or not.
 
Please join the Kondh people and local villagers in petitioning the Indian government to protect their human rights and the environment against corporate abuse - by halting the go-head of mining. 
 
Please sign the petittion here http://www.PetitionOnline.com/niyam/
Save Niyamgiri, protect human rights.

Thousands of Kondh people are fighting to save themselves and their environment from destruction