A dimension within Indigenous Wisdom
Connecting cultural heritage and preservation with nature and health.
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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.

We must actively safeguard our local traditions, medicinal plants, and vital forest trees to ensure our heritage and well-being endure.

In our jungle villages, we cherish and pass down traditional crops like Majeri, along with the knowledge of local herbs and cultural practices, for the benefit of future generations.

We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.

Amidst modern stresses, our community finds strength and identity in safeguarding traditional knowledge and cultural practices through the wisdom of elders.
We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.
— Chanda
We can collect all the medicinal things found in the forest and show them to future generations and preserve them.
— Anupama Mahanand
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
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
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
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
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
We should protect our culture because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We must protect our forests so that herbs remain.
— Chanda
We should protect our culture so that our food items from the forests and cultural programs remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
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
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 should preserve our culture so that future generations also know about our cultural traditions.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
Our traditional mountain songs, which are connected to nature, are slowly disappearing. Therefore, we should make efforts to pass them on to the next generation.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We want to preserve ancient languages, dances, songs, traditions, food, conservation, nurturing, etc.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
The protection of the forest, its herbs, and natural beauty is important.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, 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
Our culture, civilization, tradition, and culture should be protected because they are connected to water, forest, land, and earth.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
One should protect their culture so that future generations have its traditional knowledge and are helped in preserving their traditions.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should also preserve our culture so that future generations can know our traditions, art, culture, and way of life.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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 have to preserve our culture so that the coming generation can use it.
— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
To save our tradition and culture
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
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
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 should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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 so that our generation can know about us.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should protect our culture because it is important to tell our future generation and it is important for them to know.
— Pankajini Chhatria
Our culture, including games, dance, songs, and festivals, should be preserved. It should be kept so that our coming generations can know it.
— Priti majhi
We protect our culture so that we can tell the future generations.
— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
We should preserve our culture so that future generations know about it and the culture remains alive.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.