A dimension within Forest & Biodiversity
This theme explores the interconnected environmental crisis of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and natural resource depletion leading to extinction.
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Overall Community Sentiment
Herbs are running out, water and forests are getting depleted.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Mukasim, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In the coming 20 years, there will be a significant shortage of water, forests, and land. Even languages will become extinct. Trees and plants will not remain. Animals and birds will also become extinct if they are not conserved.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In the next twenty years, forest seeds will run out.
— Kachala Choudhary
Herbs, vegetable trees, medicinal plants are becoming extinct from our forests.
— Kachala Choudhary
Our medicinal herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees are depleting from the forests.
— Kachala Choudhary
Depletion of natural resources, trees are being cut down, ponds are getting filled up, the balance of nature is deteriorating.
— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
Forests are disappearing, livelihoods are being destroyed. Forests are also getting depleted, herbs are disappearing. It's not like it used to be.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The forests, animals, birds, and springs that used to be in our forest are slowly disappearing.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
The forest, the forest, the forest. Its liquid resources are slowly being depleted. Forests are absolutely necessary. These two types of cherries have become scarce. That specific thing will only be available if there is a forest.
— Keshab Majhi · Naniriguda, Rayagada, Odisha
The forest's medicinal plants are depleting.
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In the forest, all the ancient trees are disappearing. And all the medicinal trees are also disappearing.
— Anupama Mahanand
The disappearance of medicinal plants and herbs; earlier, medicinal herbs could be found in forests, but now everything is disappearing.
— VEER SINGH SIJUI · Kharasawan, Seraikela-Kharsawan, Jharkhand
Large trees have been cut down, due to which it is becoming difficult to find forest vegetables and herbs.
— Kachala Choudhary
The forest is depleting
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If we don't act now, forests, languages, seeds, songs, and other things will become extinct from us in the next 20 years.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We have seen many changes in the forest nowadays, such as trees and plants being cut down, the forest being deforested, herbs disappearing, animals and birds going extinct, and the water level depleting.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
If no steps are taken for forest protection within the next 20 years, then various trees, animals, birds, and medicinal plants in the forest will all disappear.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
Four Mahua, Kendu, Dumer, and Peepal trees - all these seem to be disappearing.
— Anupama Mahanand
In this eternal forest, various valuable trees and medicinal plants are slowly starting to disappear.
— NAGRIK VIKASH SANGATHAN · Kalahandi, Odisha
If we do not act now, in the coming 20 years, forests, languages, seeds, songs, and other things will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
They used to make wooden presses for extracting oil. All of that is disappearing and will become extinct in the next 20 years.
— ANIL KUMAR · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Food, forests, and agricultural systems are all slowly disappearing. Among these three, what we miss the most are the forests. The forests that were there before will not be there anymore. The absence of which...
— Sudarsan Dalei · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
Significant changes or losses are occurring in forests, such as trees and plants being cut down excessively, herbs disappearing, animals becoming extinct, and insects migrating from one place to another.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
In the next twenty years, our forest, our culture, customs and traditions, seeds, everything will be destroyed.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we do nothing, then within twenty years, along with losing our dance and music, forests are also disappearing, and we might lose all of them.
— S Guruteli · Gandiaguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
In today's time, many changes are happening in the forests. Trees are being cut, medicinal plants are disappearing, animals are becoming extinct, and migration is happening very rapidly.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We have our tribal languages; people used to know them earlier. And after 20 years, so much forest is being destroyed, and in another 20 years, all those animals and birds will disappear.
— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha
Even many large trees in the forest have been depleted, and there are no medicinal herbs left. Animals and birds in the forest are also disappearing. Therefore, we absolutely need the forest.
— Mukunda Majhi · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha
Very few native seeds are left, our indigenous seeds are getting depleted, due to the arrival of corporate seeds.
— Kachala Choudhary
In earlier times, medicinal fruits were found in the forest, but now those things are becoming extinct day by day.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
In today's era, forests are undergoing many kinds of changes and losses, such as trees being cut, herbs disappearing, animals becoming extinct, people migrating from one place to another, and insects.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Locally available wild food products that are nutritious are very scarce in our area because the forests here are on the verge of extinction.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we don't do anything, then in the next 20 years, all our songs, forests, languages, seeds, trees, animals, and birds will disappear.
— Batakrushna Sahoo
If we do not make some effort, we will lose our traditional seeds, medicinal herbs, pure environment, air, etc.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we do not protect ourselves, then we will end up like forests, medicinal herbs, and vultures, which are currently on the verge of extinction.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
If we don't do something in the next 20 years, our traditional seeds could disappear.
— Kachala Choudhary
Given the critical situation that has developed, the extent of damage that has occurred, and the way people are progressing; if we do nothing about this, then in the coming days there will be no trees, no animals, and no herbal medicines will be found.
— gobardhan pangi
Medicinal plants are on the verge of extinction in the forest. The forest should be protected.
— upendra sunani · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
The herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees have been depleted from the forest.
— Kachala Choudhary
