A dimension within Biodiversity & Forest Conservation
This theme explores the deep connection between cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and the preservation of forest environments and tribal rights.
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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 should protect our culture so that our food items from the forests and cultural programs remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Traditional songs and forest herbs should be protected.
— Chanda
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
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 because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture, herbs, forests, our history, and old festivals like Karma.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We must protect our forests so that herbs remain.
— Chanda
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
Our culture, civilization, tradition, and culture should be protected because they are connected to water, forest, land, and earth.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We should protect our culture.
— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture so that our traditions, culture, and customs remain in the future.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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 should protect our tribe so that language, traditional knowledge, lifestyle, folk songs, and dances remain.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
To preserve our tradition and culture, we have to protect our heritage and we have to
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
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 so that our past culture is preserved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To save our tradition and culture
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that it remains alive in the future.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We should protect our culture so that future generations come to know about this traditional culture and knowledge, and they do not forget their language. If we do not protect it, the indigenous community will be lost.
— 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
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 preserve our culture so that future generations know about it and to prevent the government from making our culture disappear.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar 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
To preserve culture
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should protect our culture because it is our traditional culture.
— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that future generations also know about our cultural traditions.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We have to protect our culture so that our daily dance, music, etc., continue to the next generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The preservation of our culture is necessary to protect the environment of our culture.
— Laxmanlal
It is essential to preserve our culture and tradition.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha
It is necessary to protect our culture so that old games, customs, traditions, songs, and cultural practices remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
The traditions, culture, customs, and practices of the tribal community are on the verge of extinction, so it is necessary to preserve our culture.
— Rupesh Maravi · Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh
We should preserve our culture to safeguard fading knowledge.
— Kusha Mahakud
Our tribe must preserve its culture to carry traditional knowledge from one generation to another.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
The customs, traditions, and culture of our community are on the verge of disappearing, so we must protect them so that they remain alive for future generations.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We must preserve culture as it helps keep traditional knowledge alive.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
