This brief outtake is one of many that didn’t quite fit into our 20-minute documentary “May The Forest Be With You… COTAP visits the Khasi Hills,” but it does contain an important topic…
The Khasi Hills REDD+ Project distributes electric rice cookers to remote villages in order to improve indoor air quality and eliminate the need for burning wood. But those rice cookers require electricity, and thus power lines through the forest, which creates a potential fire hazard.
…Or does it? Watch and find out!