Forest & Habitat Loss

Forests are disappearing, livelihoods are being destroyed. Forests are also getting depleted, herbs are disappearing. It's not like it used to be.

— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

In today's era, forests are undergoing many kinds of changes and losses, such as trees being cut, herbs disappearing, animals becoming extinct, people migrating from one place to another, and insects.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Forest land has been lost.

— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Forest land has been lost.

— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Currently, we are seeing trees, animals, and herbs in the forest being harmed.

— Premsila Naik

Herbs/animals in the forest are undergoing changes or damage.

— AbhiLL Ipsa

Currently, we are seeing that trees, animals, and herbs in the forest are going to be damaged.

— Premsila Naik

Nowadays, due to the damage to all forests, animals, birds, and insects are all disappearing.

— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

This is human-induced devastation. By cutting down forests, many creatures, plants, medicinal herbs, animals, and birds are being harmed.

— Padmini Bhoi

In today's time, many changes are happening in the forests. Trees are being cut, medicinal plants are disappearing, animals are becoming extinct, and migration is happening very rapidly.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

The forests, animals, birds, and springs that used to be in our forest are slowly disappearing.

— Batakrushna Sahoo

The herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees have been depleted from the forest.

— Kachala Choudhary

In the forest, all the ancient trees are disappearing. And all the medicinal trees are also disappearing.

— Anupama Mahanand

Large trees have been cut down, due to which it is becoming difficult to find forest vegetables and herbs.

— Kachala Choudhary

We have seen the damage happening in the forest, impacting all its animals, birds, trees, and plants.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ammatola, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Our medicinal herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees are depleting from the forests.

— Kachala Choudhary

There is a lot of blasting happening here, and due to the blasting, the forest is also being destroyed. Animals and birds are also losing their habitats. A lot of forest is being destroyed. Due to the blasting, we cannot even stay here. When a lot of forest is destroyed, we are that much.

— RINA BEHERA · Sundargarh, Odisha

Even many large trees in the forest have been depleted, and there are no medicinal herbs left. Animals and birds in the forest are also disappearing. Therefore, we absolutely need the forest.

— Mukunda Majhi · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

What changes or damages are occurring in the forest you are observing? Have trees and plants been cut down and destroyed, or have animals and birds also died? What about their food, as a result of the forest becoming desolate?

— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

Observe the changes or damages occurring in the forest. Our wild animals are dying due to destructive felling, and this is causing great loss.

— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha

Herbs, vegetable trees, medicinal plants are becoming extinct from our forests.

— Kachala Choudhary

They have been living there for a long time. Now, there have been changes in the forest. Valuable trees are not found. Animals and birds are no longer in the forest. Everything is gone.

— Trinath badanayak · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha

Animals and birds living in the forest are becoming very scarce and are rarely seen. Trees and plants are also significantly decreasing due to deforestation. And sometimes it also happens that fires break out in summer (Jeth) because the forests themselves are diminishing.

— Kamleah Kumar · Dalla, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Depletion of natural resources, trees are being cut down, ponds are getting filled up, the balance of nature is deteriorating.

— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand

Fruit trees and vegetable plants have disappeared from our forests.

— Kachala Choudhary

We have seen the damage caused to those living in the forest. We have seen the damage caused to animals, birds, and plants living in the forest.

— Kamleah Kumar · Ammatola, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Yes, damage has definitely occurred. Previously, people used to obtain two traditional food items by cutting trees from the forest. Now, these are not available. Furthermore, there has been extensive damage to medicinal plants, and those are also not available.

— gobardhan pangi

We went and within 20 years the forest trees will be cut very rapidly, due to which we will suffer losses and wild animals will also not be there at this time.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

The disappearance of medicinal plants and herbs; earlier, medicinal herbs could be found in forests, but now everything is disappearing.

— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Kharasawan, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand

The tribal community has been displaced from our forests, and the forests have been destroyed.

— Kachala Choudhary

At this time, there are no birds left in the forest. I don't know where the birds have gone, and there are no animals, and plants are becoming very scarce due to deforestation.

— Kamleah Kumar · Dalla, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Food, forests, and agricultural systems are all slowly disappearing. Among these three, what we miss the most are the forests. The forests that were there before will not be there anymore. The absence of which...

— Sudarsan Dalei · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

The forest's medicinal plants are depleting.

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

The government has encroached upon our forests and destroyed the trees and plants.

— Kachala Choudhary