A dimension within Sustainable Forest Management
This theme explores the intertwined efforts of water and forest conservation, emphasizing environmental protection and cultural connections.
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To save water and forests, we should plant trees and protect them. We should not cut them down, as we get pure air and water from them. Therefore, we should protect the forests.
— Ram Kumari
We should protect forest trees for a pure environment.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Save the forest, conserve the soil.
— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, Odisha
We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.
— Chanda
Our culture, civilization, tradition, and culture should be protected because they are connected to water, forest, land, and earth.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
To save water and forests, we all should plant trees, so that we can get healthy air and protect our environment, ensuring the safety of all living beings, animals, and birds, and providing pure air.
— Ram Kumari
For Developed India Vision 2047, we will also have to save our water, forests, and land. We must protect the environment.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To save water, forests, and land, we should plant trees so that we can get clean air. Therefore, all of us, brothers and sisters, should collectively prevent the cutting of trees and plants, so that we can have clean air and protect the environment.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should protect our culture because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our forests. Many living beings and animals live there. Trees have started to be cut down, so they should be saved.
— Mohan AHARI · Patiya, Udaipur, Rajasthan
Protecting our culture, planting trees and plants, storing food seeds, saving the environment, instilling ethics in everyone, and preventing water pollution.
— Laxmanlal
We must protect our forests so that herbs remain.
— Chanda
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
The government should protect the traditions and forests of the tribals; if the tribals exist, the forests will also be safe.
— Gopal · Alirajpur, 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
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
The government should promote and protect forests.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
All of them should plant trees to save water and forests. For example,
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We must protect our water, forest, and land, or else, gradually, the forest department will have our forests cut down, which was our family's ancestral home.
— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should save forests for future generations so that pastures can be saved for cows, oxen, and goats.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The protection of the forest, its herbs, and natural beauty is important.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We get good rain from forests, that's why forests should be saved.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Destruction should not happen in the name of development. Water, forest, and land should be saved.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our people will take as much as they need from whatever they find in creation, and will not waste anything unnecessarily. They will preserve all water, forests, and land. Such are our people.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We will take care of the trees and plants in our forest and maintain them; we will not cut them. They will provide us support and wood.
— Dinesh Damor · Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Seeing the greenery of the forest feels very good, we must save the forests.
— Kachala Choudhary
Hello. We will take care of our forest and protect the forest trees.
— Gauri damor
Deforestation should be stopped.
— Sunita Kumari
Look, the protection of forest and trees just by saying.
— Sunita Kumari
Forests are important for protection because they ensure the fertility of the land, the weather, and the food security of the people.
— Sudhakar Pradhan · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
We have the ability to save the forest.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We should protect our culture so that our food items from the forests and cultural programs remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We will maintain the trees and plants in our forest and will not cut them, and we will bring all the grass from them and keep the forest safe.
— Deelip Meena · Chundawara, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
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
Just as forest land is saved today, may it remain saved.
— अमर जीत · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The protection of the forest's herbs and natural beauty is important.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
It is necessary to preserve our culture because our forests, mountains, villages, nature, environment, our very blood, and everything else.
— Laxmanlal
If we do not protect our forests, then the medicinal herbs and trees of our forests, which contribute to our economic situation, may be destroyed. Therefore, it is very important to protect our forests.
— Chanda
Plant trees in the forest, protect the forest.Name -Sundri PadiamiVillage -Kodeguda
— Champa Gatan · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
We want to advise the government that, to build a developed India, it should not cut forests, save the environment, and ensure the system protects the tribals.
— Kachala Choudhary
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