Coexistence Under Threat in the Salai Forest of Kuno by Asmita Kabra | CoexistenceInPractice Series

The forested landscapes of central India are home to many adivasi communities, each with their own traditional systems of habitat management. In this episode of Coexistence in Practice, Asmita Kabra describes the Sahariya Adivasi community's indigenous tree tenure system, that has withstood more than a century of colonial and postcolonial impulses of territorialisation by the state, and talks about how this system is crumbling under the onslaught of a more pernicious form of fortress conservation which is currently playing out in these forests.
Asmita is a professor at the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi, and a founder of two NGOs Samrakshan Trust (samrakshan.org/...) and Adharshila (adharshila.org.in).
You can read more about the indigenous tree tenure system in her paper ‘Indigenous tree tenure in the times of charismatic carnivore conservation: Territoriality and property in the forests of central India’.
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