A dimension within Indigenous Knowledge Guardians
This theme encompasses the preservation of forests, trees, medicinal plants, and their cultural significance for health and education.
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We can collect all the medicinal things found in the forest and show them to future generations and preserve them.
— Anupama Mahanand
So that future generations can also know about all the trees and plants in the forests that protect us from diseases.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
So that future generations can know about the trees and plants in the forests that protect us from disease.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.
— Chanda
We want to bring all the traditional medicines, including roots and herbs, that are available. And we want to save the forest. All the traditional games that were played...
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We should engage in traditional conservation so that we can inform future generations about herbs and traditional songs, ensuring their preservation for generations to come.
— Chanda
We must protect our forests so that herbs remain.
— Chanda
I want to bring back the medicinal items, food items, and root vegetables found in our forest, so that they do not disappear.
— Laxmi Bagh · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
I want to save traditional medicine, herbs, roots, and trees.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
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
Traditional songs and forest herbs should be protected.
— Chanda
We should preserve our culture, herbs, forests, our history, and old festivals like Karma.
— Chanda · 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 protect even the supreme traditional methods, we need to make people aware and tell them about our old seeds which grow naturally by nature.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We can bring and use some medicinal properties found in the forest, such as chiro or polamula, and by showing it to the children, to them.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
We should protect our culture because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
It is absolutely essential for traditional healers and elderly people to learn about and identify medicinal plants from forest-dwelling tribes, and to preserve this knowledge for future generations.
— Anirudha Marai
Traditional knowledge about forest medicinal herbs, the language of seeds, animals, and birds should be learned from the elder generation and passed on to the youth.
— Sabina · Tumudibandh, Kandhamal, 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
The protection of the forest, its herbs, and natural beauty is important.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Learn traditional forest and tribal knowledge so that this knowledge can be passed on to the next generation.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The protection of the forest's herbs and natural beauty is important.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should newly teach children about all the forest products found in the forest and explain them in a traditional manner.
— Anupama Mahanand · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
We have been living in this village for approximately 100 years. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. There have been many changes in the forest; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, then within the next 20 years, along with the destruction of the forest, all types of wild animals, medicinal plants, and creepers will disappear. Camps should be organized to teach traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders to the younger generation, transfer it to the next generation, and preserve it.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
For us, the knowledge of traditional culture, civilization, traditions, customs, food and drink, worship, lifestyle, and herbs should reach the next generation.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We have been living in this village for nearly 100 years. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. The forest has undergone many changes; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, then within the next 20 years, the forest will be destroyed, and all types of wild animals, medicinal plants, and vines will vanish. Camps should be organized to teach the younger generation traditional forest and tribal knowledge from the elders, to pass it on to the next generation, and to preserve it.
— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha
We tribal people bring herbs from the forest to treat many diseases, for the well-being of people.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
For future generations, traditional food and herbal remedies should be available, and people should remain healthy. They wish for their preservation through this.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should conduct camps to teach our young generation traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders, pass it on to the next generation, and preserve it.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
We can use muIdim found in the forest as traditional medicine.
— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha
We should preserve our culture so that future generations also know about our cultural traditions.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Traditionally, we used to use various types of medicinal properties from the forest.
— Suna majhi
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
We tribal people bring herbs from the forest and treat ailments, which is very important for health.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
Medicinal plants are on the verge of extinction in the forest. The forest should be protected.
— upendra sunani · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
Due to the cutting of trees and plants in the village, various herbs and food items are becoming extinct. We can protect them.
— Mohan AHARI · Sarera, Udaipur, Rajasthan
Medicinal plants and roots found in the forest are no longer available. We must protect them.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
I have been living in this village since my grandfather's time. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. The forest has changed a lot; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, the forest will be destroyed within the next 20 years, and all kinds of wild animals, medicinal trees, and plants will vanish. The younger generation should be taught traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders and transfer it to the next generation, and camps should be organized to preserve it.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha
We should protect our culture so that our generation can know about us.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
