Urgent Action: Stop evictions from tiger reserves

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Urgent Action: Stop evictions from tiger reserves

“We were forced to leave. They made us leave our village. Before the evictions there was a lot of trouble, the forest department harrassed us a lot.”
Baiga man evicted from Kanha Tiger Reserve


Across India thousands of people are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands inside tiger reserves in the name of conservation.

Last year, Baiga and Gond families were evicted from Kanha Tiger Reserve, home of Kipling's The Jungle Book. In 2013, Khadia hunter-gatherers were evicted from Similipal Tiger Reserve. They ended up living in dire conditions under plastic sheets.

These evictions are illegal under... Indian and international law.

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Please write to the Minister responsible, asking him to uphold the law and stop all evictions that don’t have the free, prior and informed consent of the tribal communities concerned. All those evicted against their will should be allowed to return.

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Dear Minister,

The ongoing eviction of tribal communities from tiger reserves across India is against the law, counter-productive for conservation and destroys the lives and livelihoods of the families concerned. Tribal families from both Kanha and Similipal Tiger Reserves are struggling to survive since their evictions.

Please declare a moratorium on any further evictions and ensure that any ‘resettlement’ conforms with the letter and spirit of the Forest Rights Act.

Please ensure that no further evictions occur unless and until all the conditions stipulated by law are met, namely that the informed consent of the communities has been freely given, prior to any evictions; that their forest rights have been fully processed and recognised; and that they are not moved unless there is evidence to show that their co-existence with the wildlife of the reserve is impossible. All those evicted against their will should be allowed to return.

Yours sincerely,

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