A dimension within Traditional Folk Arts
Connecting cultural heritage with biodiversity and environmental protection, especially concerning forests.
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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.
The people of Udulibeda emphasize the vital role of traditional knowledge in cultivating local foods, stewarding the land, and ensuring their community's self-sufficiency for generations to come.
In Sonbhadra, an elder reflects on the community's evolving traditions, from festive celebrations and unique tribal customs to environmental shifts and new livelihoods, holding onto the hope of preser
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.
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
If we do not preserve our language, culture, traditional songs, dances, musical instruments, and indigenous seeds in the next 20 years, all will disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
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
We believe that if we do nothing, songs, forests, languages, and seeds will be lost within the next 20 years.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
If our culture is not preserved now, many things like songs, languages, and traditional and cultural aspects will become extinct in the next 20 years.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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 the next twenty years, our forest, our culture, customs and traditions, seeds, everything will be destroyed.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we don't act now, then in the next 20 years, our water, forests, land, language, seeds, and even the indigenous people will be destroyed.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we do not protect our culture, then in the coming time, all our traditional songs, traditional dances, musical instruments, and folk songs will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we don't do something in the next 20 years, our traditional seeds could disappear.
— Kachala Choudhary
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 preserve our language now, according to our tribe, then it too will become extinct. Forests will also become extinct, and seeds will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If we do nothing, then within 20 years, there will be no forest, no language, no songs, no seeds. Name Irma Madhi, Village Gorakhunta, Malkangiri.
— Trinath badanayak · Kamarpalli, Malkangiri, Odisha
What could be lost in the next 20 years: songs, music, seeds, forests.
— Amar Lal Dhurwey · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
We should preserve our culture because if we do not, then in the future, we, our community, and all our cultural traditions will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
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
We should protect the culture of our tribes because if we don't, in the coming time, we will become extinct and our community will cease to exist.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should also preserve our culture because if we do not preserve our culture, then all our language knowledge, indigenous knowledge will disappear.
— 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
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
Day by day everyone is moving towards modernization, so preserving culture is becoming mandatory, otherwise all our traditional knowledge, skills, songs, and dances will disappear.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
If we don't do anything in the next 20 years, the forests will be destroyed.
— MUKTA THAKUR · Kokasara, Kalahandi, Odisha
In a few years, tribal traditions like songs, stories, and Vatra dance will become extinct.
— Kachala Choudhary
If we don't do anything within the next twenty years, the forests will be destroyed.
— MUKTA THAKUR · Kalahandi, Odisha
We believe that our native language will hardly be spoken by the next generation if we do not preserve our culture and language; it will be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Forests will be destroyed if we do nothing in the next 20 years.
— Premsila Naik · Kalahandi, Odisha
If the traditions, customs, songs, dances, and worship methods of tribal communities are not preserved, they will be lost. Therefore, we and everyone must save them.
— Anirudha Marai
It is essential that we preserve our culture so that our traditional knowledge can be kept alive; otherwise, we will move towards modernity and forget everything.
— Upendra Kumar Mahananda
We should preserve our culture because if our culture does not survive, our indigenous people will also not survive. At the same time, all the traditional customs and cultural practices will also disappear.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
Language, song, and dance are disappearing, the next generation should preserve them.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
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
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
To preserve our cultural customs, we will have to do a lot because our culture is slowly disappearing, and people are slowly
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We discussed preserving our culture, including our dances, songs, stories, messages, and attire. If all these things are lost, future generations will not be able to know what they were.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
We should protect our culture because if culture doesn't survive, then indigenous people will not survive either; they will completely vanish, they will become extinct.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture because if our culture doesn't survive, our indigenous people will also not survive, and along with that, all the traditional, cultural traditions will also be lost.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
If the culture of the tribals is not protected, then the tribals themselves will also disappear.
— Gopal
The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.
