A community stage to celebrate Kaziranga – indifferent forest department.

Authors: Eleonora Fanari & Pranab Doley  A military shirt, a gun and a hat represents the Forest Guard made up of bamboo cane surrounded by a theatre of wild animals, the swamp deer, the elephant, the tiger and the one horned rhino, the proud symbol of Kaziranga National Park. In the middle of this theatrical…

Trails of the Van Gujjars

The rain falls in the wet silent valley, where the muddy roads pave the way to the peaceful forest at the proximity of the famous Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve, in the Tarai Western Forest of Uttarakhand. The Van Gujjar village of Tumadia, situated just at the fringe of the Park, have been fighting since 2013…

Struggle for survival in the Sundarbans

The fishermen living within the limits of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, in West Bengal,  are highly affected by the harsh conservationist policies which have directly consequences and impacts on the livelihood of thousands of people.  Around 80% of the 4.5 million inhabitants of Sundarban depend on fishing for a source of livelihood; in the name…

Million of Displaced people…

ITALIANO The millions of displaced people do not exist anymore. When history is written they would not be in it, not even as statistics. Some of them have subsequently been displaced three and four times…. True, they are not being annihilated or taken to gas chambers, but I can warrant that the quality of their…

Sundarbans; Fishing Struggle in time of Conservation

ITALIAN In a space when rivers meet the sea, and the hungry tides wash the lands in continuous rhythm, fishing seems to be the only alternative to survive in the hostile landscape that creates what today is known as the Sundarbans. But when tradition meets modernity, and the rule of conservation overcome the rituals and…