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Indian Officials Order Stop to Eviction of Tribal People from Tiger Reserves

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February 28, 2018
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An Indian government agency for indigenous people has asked the forest ministry to ensure that its tiger conservation policy does not threaten the rights of indigenous people. / Reuters

An Indian government agency for indigenous people has asked the forest ministry to ensure that its tiger conservation policy does not threaten the rights of indigenous people. / Reuters

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BANGKOK — An Indian government agency for indigenous people has asked the forest ministry to stop evicting tribal people from tiger reserves, highlighting the growing tensions over land use in the country.

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests to ensure that its tiger conservation policy does not threaten the rights of indigenous people.

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It also said that those who are asked to move from core tiger habitats must be adequately compensated and given land.

The environment ministry’s National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) issued a notice last year asking 17 Indian states to suspend the granting of rights to tribal and other forest dwellers in all critical tiger habitats.

NTCA officials denied that their policy hurts tribal forest dwellers.

“It is a wrong notion that tribals are being evicted,” Debabrata Swain, an additional director general at the NTCA, said on Tuesday.

“It is entirely voluntary; we ask them if they would like to move from core tiger habitats and protected areas. If they agree to the rehabilitation terms, then they move,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

The NTCA is studying the NCST’s order, which it received on Monday, and will respond in time, Swain said over the phone.

India’s Forest Rights Act gives indigenous people and forest dwellers the right to harvest and use forest resources to maintain their traditional livelihoods.

More than a fifth of India’s 1.2 billion population was expected to benefit from the 2006 law covering vast areas of forest land roughly the size of Germany.

But implementation has been slow and conflicts between states and indigenous people have risen as more land is sought for industrial projects in one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

Wildlife tourism is also a growing money-spinner, and hundreds of tribal villagers have been evicted in sometimes violent clashes from land reserved for tigers, elephants and rhinoceros.

Last November, advocacy group Survival International asked tourists to boycott India’s tiger reserves until the rights of indigenous people in them are upheld.

Officials must ensure their forest rights are settled, and offer more compensation, said Rahul Choudhary, co-founder of non-profit Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment.

“These are people who have lived in the forest for generations. The government must offer better terms for their rehabilitation,” he said.

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