h2. Sacred At the centre of the struggle is the Dongria’s sacred mountain, the ‘mountain of law’. The Dongrias worship the top of the mountain as the seat of their god and protect the forests there. <div><object width="380" height="232"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4tuTFZ3wXQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&showinfo=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4tuTFZ3wXQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="380" height="232"></embed></object><br /><div style="color: #555; margin-bottom: 10px;"><small>Survival's short movie captures the voice of the Dongria Kondh as they face Vedanta's incursions.</small></div></div> Vedanta Resources wants to mine the bauxite from the top of the same mountain. The Dongria Kondh would lose their livelihood, their identity and the sanctity of their most religious site. In common with other "displaced tribal peoples worldwide":/campaigns/progresscankill, they would also lose their present good health, their self-sufficiency and their expert knowledge of the hills, forests and farming systems that they have nurtured. 16 <img src="/lib/img/tagpages/niyamgiri.jpg" style="border: 1px #333 solid;" /><br /> <span style="color: #666; font-size: 12px;">Dongria Kondh man in Niyamgiri's forests.<br />© Jason Taylor</span> notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *The Niyamgiri Hills form a mountain range in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa.* They are home to more than 8,000 of the "Dongria Kondh":/dongria people, whose lifestyle and religion have helped nurture the area’s dense forests and unusually rich wildlife. Yet a British company, "Vedanta Resources":/vedanta, is determined to mine their sacred mountain's rich seam of bauxite (aluminium ore). notextile. </span> 3 h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Vedanta Resources*":/vedanta <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*7,000 march against British mining company Vedanta*":/news/4105 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Dongria Kondh's sacred mountain*":/tribes/dongria/sacredmountain <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*'Progress can kill' campaign*":/campaigns/progresscankill h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go &raquo;" /> </form> </div> niyamgiri 3 167