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Saving tigers, killing people
States are evicting and murdering Indigenous people in the guise of biodiversity conservation.
Souparna Lahiri
Souparna Lahiri
Souparna Lahiri is associated with the All India Forum of Forest Movements and the Global Forest Coalition.
6 Jul 2018
Indigenous women from the Rabha tribe, pictured during prayer. Many Rabhas were evicted from the Buxa-Chilapata forests after the creation of a national park [Photo credit: Global Forest Coalition]
Indigenous women from the Rabha tribe, pictured during prayer. Many Rabhas were evicted from the Buxa-Chilapata forests after the creation of a national park [Photo credit: Global Forest Coalition]
From forced eviction to restrictions on access to resources, conservation practices have long been tied to violence against the indigenous peoples that live in forest areas. In recent years, we witnessed an exponential increase in conservation-related violence across the world.
Today, as conservation efforts become more and more militarised, state-sponsored actors are not only evicting and restricting the movements of indigenous community members, but also killing them for allegedly trespassing on their own ancestral lands.