The race to win votes is having a dangerous impact on India's depleting natural resources which are just "gifted" away during poll time, say conservationists who have drawn up a "green charter" to save nature. From transferring forest officials to taking action against encroachers, to promising dams in protected areas or building recreational facilities or making way for power projects, "the forests of India are being bartered away to win votes," says environmentalist Mr. Bittu Sehgal.