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 "updated": "2026-09-30",
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 "confidence": "A",
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 "title": "The sandalwood act amended in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, 2001 and 2002",
 "date": {
  "value": "2001–2002",
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  "year": 2001,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-8",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-8-fatima-2022-sandalwood-karnataka.md:16",
  "quote": "Realizing the sharp decline in the sandalwood population, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Forest department amended the sandalwood act in 2001 and 2002 and declared the private sandalwood growers himself an owner of the sandalwood as per the amended Act.",
  "confidence": "A"
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  "value": "Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amend the sandalwood act, making private growers the owners of their sandalwood.",
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  "source": "GC-8",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-8-fatima-2022-sandalwood-karnataka.md:16",
  "quote": "Realizing the sharp decline in the sandalwood population, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Forest department amended the sandalwood act in 2001 and 2002 and declared the private sandalwood growers himself an owner of the sandalwood as per the amended Act.",
  "confidence": "A"
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  "note": "no place on record for this event"
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  "sandalwood-oil"
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  "santalum-album"
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  "mysore-in"
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 "copy": {
  "lede": "In 2001 and 2002 Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amended the sandalwood act.",
  "body": [
   "A study on file says the amendments declared private sandalwood growers the owners of their trees, after a sharp decline in the sandalwood population."
  ]
 }
}