Wildlife conservation initiatives, including Project Tiger, have forced Indigenous people out of forests and hurt their livelihoods, protesters say.
Protesters, meanwhile, are telling their own stories Sunday of how they have been displaced by wildlife conservation projects over the last half-century, with dozens demonstrating about an hour away from the announcement.Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the Masters because he aggravated his plantar fasciitis again after completing seven holes of the third round.
Members of several Indigenous or Adivasi groups — as Indigenous people are known in the country — set up the Nagarahole Adivasi Forest Rights Establishment Committee to protest evictions from their ancestral lands and seek a voice in how the forests are managed. The fewer than 40,000 Jenu Kuruba people are one of the 75 tribal groups that the Indian government classifies as particularly vulnerable. Adivasi communities like the Jenu Kurubas are among the poorest in India.
India’s tiger numbers, meanwhile, are thriving: The country’s 3,167 tigers account for more than 75% of the world’s wild tiger population. But critics say the social costs of fortress conservation — where forest departments protect wildlife and prevent local communities from entering forest regions — is high.
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