Claim: The green landscape was there before the Kuki community came to the Manipur hills, while the barren land shows what happened to the green landscape after their settlement.
Fact-check: Images of a restored tropical forest from Brazil are being shared as a forest turned into wasteland by Kukis in Manipur - FACTLY
Verdict: the images are from the state of minas gerais located in brazil. a photojournalist sebastião ribeiro salgado and his wife lélia replanted a wasteland with 2 million trees and turned it into a tropical forest in 20 years. sebastião salgado established the nonprofit organization instituto terra in 1998 and initiated a tree-planting campaign known as instituto terra's reforestation project. hence, the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Sushmitha Ponnala
Date published: 2024-02-28T08:50:31