imagine you are a tribal and have been evicted from the forest. write down your feelings after this eviction.
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i cant imagine myself as a tribal..
u tribal!!
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i dont want to give explanation
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Several research studies have revealed that stewardship by forest-dwelling communities considerably slows the rate of forest degradation. Since mitigating and adapting to climate change requires sustainable forests management, the tribal people who have been living in and around the forest for millennia could play a key role.
But this proven logic is highly criticised by conservationists as they firmly believe that the presence of tribal communities in the forest is deleterious for the wildlife and ecosystem. And many countries’ governments often encourage eviction of tribal communities with an agenda to boost safari, create protected areas and attract tourism. In the process, the tribal communities continue to pay the brutal price for conservation.
“It has been estimated that 50 per cent of protected areas worldwide have been established on lands traditionally occupied and used by tribal people,” said Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “For over a century, conservation has resulted in cultural destruction and large-scale displacements of tribal people from their ancestral lands.”
Let us revisit the pitiable condition of tribal communities across India and Cameroon, with a special focus on their status of land rights and tyrannical measures adopted by governments to alienate tribals from their ancestral land and forest.
Eviction in the name of conservation
Taken for instance, the recent decision by the Supreme Court in February has been severely condemned by human and tribal rights activists.
Thanks to the collective advocacy by several activist groups, the SC was forced to stay its earlier decision. However, this is not the first case in India where the tribal communities have been asked to leave their homes in the name of conservation.
In 2014, around 450 families from indigenous Baiga and Gond communities were evicted to protect tigers in the Kanha Tiger Reserve. “Many affected families did not receive compensation and rehabilitation benefits as assured by the government,” claimed tribal.
According to a research conducted by Housing and Land Rights Network in 2018, “In a majority of reported eviction cases, state authorities did not follow due process established by national and international standards.” The research also revealed that, “All cases of forced eviction resulted in multiple and often gross human rights violations.”
Cameroon sails in the same boat
What has happened in India with the tribal people is also happening all over the world — hounding of the weak and exploitation of the forest land and natural resources — tribals are the worst victims. In this context, the condition of tribals in Cameroon, a central African country, is also not satisfactory despite the fact that the country is a signatory of the ‘UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People’.
Majority of the tribal people in Cameroon live in or around forest areas often rich with minerals, oil and timbers. Of country’s 22.5 million hectares of forest area, 17.5 million are classified as productive forests and are being allocated to logging companies, according to the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Cameroon.
Today many of the Baka people are living on the road side at the outskirts of towns, deprived from basic needs food, shelter and portable water. “Eviction of tribal people is increasing, with intimidation, harassment, threat, and violence being used by the ruling government in Cameroon against who resists,” say local journalists.
In the last two decades, there has been a growing concern by several international conservation-based organisations to protect the endangered wildlife species, with a special focus on Asia and Africa. For example, in Cameroon, the rate of creation of protected areas and sanctuaries has increased exponentially in the last one decade.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is one of the international collaborators of Cameroon government to protect wildlife and create sanctuaries. Over the years, it was reported that many conservation-focused projects funded by WWF across Africa and Asia have grossly violated human rights of tribal communities.
“The conservation-versus-people approach to protect wildlife has worsened the lives of thousands of native people,” said Simon Counsell, director of Rainforest Foundation, an international conservation-focused organisation.
Way forward
“When traditional communities are given full legal rights to their land, they protect the environment efficiently and cheaply,” according to a study conducted by the Centre for International Forestry Research.
“In India there are many instances where tribal communities have played pioneering role in protecting wildlife and forest”, said Manohar Chowhan, member of Campaign For Survival and Dignity, a civil society network advocating for the rights of forest-dwelling .