Tiger sways man in Indian tribal village, Allocation of a new land now

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20 Feb 2017, 7:58 am

Feb 20, 2017: India has nearly about 3,200 tigers in dozens of reserves established since the 70s, with some of the nominated land shared with primeval tribal villagers. Wildlife tourism has grown widely and is a medium for earning huge amount of money for India.

However, conservationists are dubious as to whether travellers help protect threatened species or trespass onto their habitat. According to a report published in Reuters, the tigers that roam around these dense forests of eastern India have more dominance than the people that live alongside, tribal activists say, this is a drive to boost thriving wildlife tourism and trump the rights of poor villagers of tribal areas.

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Sanghamitra Dubey, a worker in an informal Indian advocacy group for forestry rights questioned,"Why are indigenous people being asked outright to leave without even attempting to explore reasonable options of co-existence with wildlife?"

Now the situation arises such that one of the two will win the priority and, the place too. The families of the ancestral land have already been asked to shift, just to protect a handful population of tigers. Last November, hundreds of families from these tribal villages were asked to vacate their homes to ensure the security of a local tiger habitat.

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Anup Kumar Nayak, a senior forest officer in Bhubaneswar proclaimed that wildlife protection laws refused to allow humans from living within critical wildlife habitat or what is deemed the 'core zone' of a national park. He further added by saying, 'the relocation are voluntary but a number of villages around Similipal were in the 'core' habitat zone or so close they were "as good as inside it" and would need to move'.

Following the trail, in the village of Jamunagarh, in the park's 'core', just three families out of more than 35 families decided to stay on and continue to use the land they won in 2015. The others chose to take the compensation and move away.