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Telangana: 80 Koya tribal families evicted from their fields for plantation drive The forced displacement of tribals will not only cause loss of livelihood and social distress, it would also adversely impact ecosystem restoration, activists have warned Farmers of the Koya tribe of Satyaranarayanam of Ganugapadu in Bhadradri Khotagudem district of Telangana have complained that […]

COVID-19 lockdown: An hour of crisis for India’s DNT communities The scarcity of essential facilities and lack of any rehabilitation measures might affect the lives of the DNTs even more than COVID-19 “Every state, every district, every lane, every village will be under lockdown,” said India’s prime minister and ordered all 1.3 billion people in

Agro biodiversity Initiatives Open Tribal Women’s Horizons Kaliamma Nanjan, 70, sings as she cuts through her farm in Kerala’s Western Ghats. She deftly navigates the slopes of Attappady in Palakkad district with the gravity-defying dexterity of a mountain goat. Her silver-grey hair and bright saree vanish as she enters her mosaic-like 3.5-acre farm — her

Tribals’ Sacred Groves Are Saving Endangered & Threatened Plants Species At least twice, the staid kalam tree (Mitragyna parvifolia), standing tall on a mound surrounded by farms in a nondescript village in the hilly areas of western Madhya Pradesh has granted his wishes, says local resident Devala Pal. He says once it pulled out a

Chhattisgarh’s tribal women keep vigil on their forests A group of women sits huddled in a circle for a meeting, in a village in Lundra forest range of Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, about 100 kilometres away from state capital Raipur. At the sarpanch Dhaneshwari Bai’s house, a resident of the village, has called an urgent meeting after

Meghalaya: Indigenous Tribals Holds Key To Protect Endangered Species Gibbons A typical morning in the village of Phlangwanbroi starts with a melodious yet primitive-sounding song: drifting over from the nearby community forest, a series of whoops, hoots and tones rise in a crescendo. It’s hooleng jingrwai — the hoolock gibbon’s song. Perched atop a rain-soaked plateau in

 Dongria Tribe Of Niyamgiri Revive Climate-Resilient Heirloom Seeds The sun rose above the jagged spires of the Niyamgiri hills, the sky a wisp of apricot on rolling mounds of green. Trees bent with mangoes and jackfruits dropped manna for the occasional passerby. Around a dirt bend, a warm symphony drifted from a hill slope: the

India is home to about 60,000 people from the community which descended from Bantu people of Africa       Presence of Siddis in India can be traced back as far as the 7th century. It is believed that they were first brought in by Arabs as slaves followed by Portuguese and Britishers. They have been

How conserving tribal languages will preserve dying cultures In a culturally and linguistically diverse country like India, there is a need to conserve the tribal languages that are dying. One of the most complex problems in India is the problem of languages. India has seen many movements to conserve the native languages; even demanding separate