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India: tribes face harassment and eviction for "tiger conservation"
[image: The Khadia were evicted from their homeland inside Similipal Tiger
Reserve in December 2013. They are now living in dire conditions under
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The Khadia were evicted from their homeland inside Similipal Tiger Reserve
in December 2013. They are now living in dire conditions under plastic
sheets and have not received the compensation they were promised.
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Survival has received disturbing reports that several tribal villages are
facing imminent eviction from Tiger Reserves in Odisha in eastern India,
despite the villagers’ desperate appeal to stay on the land and to involve
them in protecting the forest.
Testimony obtained by Survival shows that tribes in Similipal Tiger
Reserve, who have been living with the forest’s wildlife for generations,
are determined to stay on their land, but have been facing years of
harassment and pressure from forest guards to force them out of the reserve.
A Munda man from Jamunagarh, one of the villages slated for eviction, told
Survival, ‘We are very much dependent on the forest…We don’t have any
conflict with the wildlife. We don’t hunt or cut down trees. If we leave we
will face a lot of hardship… Please don’t displace us!’
In potential breach of the law, wildlife authorities in Odisha are
determined to clear ‘core areas’ inside Tiger Reserves of all human
habitation. Three out of six villages have already been removed from
Similipal and eviction plans are currently underway in the neighboring
Satkosia Tiger Reserve.
[image: Two Munda men from Jamunagarh village have launched a desperate
appeal to remain on their land inside Similipal Tiger Reserve.
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Two Munda men from Jamunagarh village have launched a desperate appeal to
remain on their land inside Similipal Tiger Reserve.
© Survival International
During the most recent eviction from Similipal in December 2013, 32
families of the Khadia tribe were moved to a resettlement village outside
of Similipal and only received a fraction of the compensation they were
promised. Sheltering under plastic sheets on a tiny patch of land, the
tribe is now entirely dependent on government handouts for their survival.
Local media
reports<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=b0bf270df0&e=fdc6267ad9>heralded
the December eviction as a ‘major
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will make further relocations ‘easy’. But Munda from Jamunagarh were
horrified by conditions at the resettlement site, saying, ’We have been
there. Seeing their condition made my heart cry. Please don’t displace us.’
According to Indian law, the villagers’ consent needs to be obtained and
their claims to their forest land processed before such resettlements can
go ahead. But their rights are ignored and communities are worn down with
harassment and promises of money, food, livestock and land – most of which
never materialises.
As the original
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tribal peoples inhabit the world’s most biologically diverse regions – and
it is often because they have protected their fragile environments that the
wildlife has managed to survive. But India’s authorities seem intent on
creating human-free zones inside tiger reserves around the nation.
Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘Tribal peoples are usually
the best conservationists. In spite of this, in many places around the
world they are being illegally evicted from their lands in the name of
‘conservation’. Nowhere is this more blatant than in reserves where people
who have lived alongside wildlife for generations are kicked out to make
way for busloads of tourists and the roads and infrastructure they demand.
It’s not about conservation, it’s about others profiting from tribal lands.’
*Notes to editors:*
- Similipal was declared a tiger reserve in 1973. In several evictions
between 1987 and 2013, three out of six villages were removed from
Similipal’s core zone. The remaining three villages Jamunagarh, Kabatghai
and Bakua are currently resisting eviction.
- A Survival researcher who recently visited the area is available for
interview
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