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Environmentally conscious citizens of the Cancona forest live in with the nature – borrowing its produce carefully for their cattle fodder, age-old herbal cures and livelihood. When the Goan forest department decided to replace these indigenous trees with foreign trees to increase forest cover, the locals were horrified and angered at the mindless decision which eventually saw 1.1 local saplings being cut and replaced at the expense of Rs 54 lacs (US Dollar 79752) of public money. “Our forests were being replaced with unknown trees which were useless as fodder or for our ancient medicinal potions. These trees were also creating a mono-culture environment, killing the indigenous plants,” says ____ who along with our Community Correspondent Devidas Goenkar was in the forefront of the community movement.

Devidas captured thethe interpretation of Champion is closer to the truth as this historian comments on the situation in a more holistic light, drawing upon many aspects of it.

Christopher Hill states that the Toleration Act of 1689 was the point in which the confessional state was depleted, although he does not go into the nuances of how. He also comments on the fact that sin could not be punished through the courts. Indeed, William himself had begun to excersise his royal authority to influence judges and curb church interference in the lives of dissenters who had not been protected under the Toleration Act. Champion also comments on the effect of the Toleration Act upon the confessional state, but notes that it didn't 'break the connection between religious identity and civil