A dimension within Indigenous Forest Wisdom
This theme explores the deep connection between tribal culture, heritage, and the conservation of the environment and natural resources.
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AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.
Our culture, civilization, tradition, and culture should be protected because they are connected to water, forest, land, and earth.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
In Putulpi village, our culture is connected to water, forest, and land. We should preserve our culture along with all the birds and animals of the forest.
— Man Singh Bankira
We should protect our culture because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In our tribe, Dhumkuriya camps should be set up so that water, forest, and land are saved, and tradition and culture are preserved.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
It is necessary to preserve our culture because our forests, mountains, villages, nature, environment, our very blood, and everything else.
— Laxmanlal
We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.
— Chanda
Putulpil, tribals in the village, want to protect their traditional culture/heritage connected with water, forest, and land.
— Man Singh Bankira
Our community, rooted in its conservative traditions, has a deep attachment to water, forest, and land. It is essential that our society focuses on ensuring this connection is passed on to future generations.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
This is why we must protect our culture. We should preserve the songs, dances, and the water, forests, and land from the past so that we can inform future generations. The coming generations will use them.
— Chanda
To preserve our tradition and culture, we have to protect our heritage and we have to
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
It is very important for us to preserve our culture because if our environment is safe, then our culture will also be safe.
— Laxmanlal
We should protect our culture so that our traditions, culture, and customs remain in the future.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture.
— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
The preservation of our culture is necessary to protect the environment of our culture.
— Laxmanlal
We should protect our culture so that our food items from the forests and cultural programs remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
To save our tradition and culture
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture, herbs, forests, our history, and old festivals like Karma.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
It is essential to preserve our culture and tradition.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha
Tribal culture is our identity, it is connected to our life, so we should protect it.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture because it is our traditional culture.
— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture for this reason: that climate change does not happen here, forests are saved, trees are saved, endangered animals, birds, and all things are saved. For this reason, we should protect our...
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our tribe so that language, traditional knowledge, lifestyle, folk songs, and dances remain.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To preserve culture
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to preserve ancient languages, dances, songs, traditions, food, conservation, nurturing, etc.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We should protect our culture so that our past culture is preserved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Protecting our culture, planting trees and plants, storing food seeds, saving the environment, instilling ethics in everyone, and preventing water pollution.
— Laxmanlal
We should preserve our culture because traditional knowledge and science are associated with it. If we do not preserve it, traditional knowledge and science will disappear. From the forest...
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Our nature, our culture, this is our tradition and fundamental system by which we protect our nature, and our resolve is to protect it.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Our tribal community, our language, our songs, our forest, our seeds, our food, and our way of life – all these make us unique, and we must officially preserve them.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
We should preserve our culture so that our tribe does not become extinct and our culture stays alive.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
So that one's tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
so that our culture can be saved
— अमर जीत · Kewata, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture and art because our ancestors preserved culture and art in all those places, and we should also preserve culture to maintain those places.
— Sastensh khura · Khatiguda, Nabarangapur, Odisha
So that our culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To preserve our old traditional heritage, it is important to save culture.
— bachcha lal · Ormaura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To preserve one's culture.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To preserve one's culture
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to preserve our culture because from it, our
— Manoj Kumar soy · Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
We are tribal people, our traditions are distinct, our culture is distinct. We all want to preserve them.
— Parikshit Majhi
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.