Protecting Our Environment

Anthony Henderson speaks to Pakhi Das in India and Nikoletta Majewska in Scotland for the ‘100 Voices: Home and Away’.

A photo of a landscape highway that cuts through the Nevada desert. Photo by Diego Jimenez on Unsplash

Away- Pakhi Das, India

Independent conservation consultant, Pakhi Das was studying the project documents for WWF India last year when she came across the highway authority’s justification for building the greenfield highway through multiple wildlife parks. She said: “They turn up to a 1.3-thousand-kilometre park and wander around for three days. If, after three days, they don’t see a tiger, they conclude that there just aren’t any. There are safeguards in place to prevent these things, put there by the previous government; this current one only seeks to find loopholes to further their own agenda.”

Home- Nikoletta Majewska, Scotland

A former volunteer at Glasgow’s Kindness Homeless Street Team, Nikoletta Majewska spent time giving out food and basic living supplies to Glasgow’s homeless but feels the government isn’t doing enough to meet people’s basic needs. She said: “I believe if they were supported properly, they wouldn’t have been in that situation. The people that I saw, most of them had a drink or drug problem. I don’t know if things are being done to tackle these issues. I’d hear quite regularly of people being [re]homed, but if you have a drink or drug problem, then that would not happen quickly.”