Indigenous Indian village dismantled in the name of tiger protection

Police and park rangers in Nagarhole National Park in southwestern India tore down an Indigenous village on June 18. They claim that the presence of the Jenu Kuruba people is harmful to the park’s tigers, even though they worship tigers as part of their belief system. Several Jenu Kuruba families had moved back in May to land that their ancestors had been forcibly displaced from.

Indigenous Indian village dismantled in the name of tiger protection
Police and park rangers in Nagarhole National Park in southwestern India tore down an Indigenous village on June 18. They claim that the presence of the Jenu Kuruba people is harmful to the park’s tigers, even though they worship tigers as part of their belief system. Several Jenu Kuruba families had moved back in May to land that their ancestors had been forcibly displaced from.

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