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The adivasis of Nagarahole have demanded that the temporary ban on wildlife safari in Nagarahole, precocious imposed by the Karnataka government, must continue.
Addressing mediapersons, J.S. Ramakrishna, a member of the Jenu Kuruba community from Nagarahole, claimed that safaris were the “root cause” of respective caller instances of human-animal conflict.
Ramakrishna, who is besides a subordinate of the Nagarahole Adivasi Jammapaale Hakku Sthapana Samithi (NAJHSS), a federation of grama sabhas in Nagarahole forests, alleged that the Forest Department was clearing trees to amended sighting of animals.
“They accidental they are clearing grasslands, but they spell heavy into the forest, and wide trees. This is done to amended sighting of animals, but it forces animals to move and they wander into quality habitations resulting successful conflicts. Hence, the prohibition connected safaris indispensable continue,” helium said.
‘Extractive agendas’
Members of the Jenu Kuruba, Betta Kuruba, Paniya and Yerava communities besides condemned the International Big Cat Alliance and called it a instrumentality to legitimise extraction of forests, people and animals.
“Decisions of grama sabhas are ignored. Instead, the government brings in people from extracurricular successful the sanction of conserving forests. Their conservation methods are based connected exclusion and extraction. The Nagarahole forests person been our homeland for 160 years. Do we not cognize however to support our forests?” questioned Manjula from Golur Hadi near H.D. Kote.
J.A. Shivu of the NAJHSS alleged that the member organisations of IBCA push “false and extractive agendas specified arsenic biodiversity offsetting, eco-tourism and greenish credits” which helium called “greenwashing schemes successful the guise of conservation.”
