*[Enwl-eng] Why you should boycott tiger reserves

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India's government is illegally evicting tribal people from their forest homes.

They are being forced out because the forests that they have cared for since time immemorial have been turned into tiger reserves.

To add insult to injury, hundreds of thousands of tourists in jeeps are permitted to enter the reserves. This disturbs the tigers, gets them used to human presence (which helps poachers), and creates litter and pollution.

I pledge to boycott Indian tiger reserves

"They evicted us on the pretext that we made noise and that we disturbed the forest. But now there are lots of jeeps and tourism vehicles – isn’t that a disturbance for the animals?"

India’s tribal people are the best guardians of their forest homes. Many of them worship tigers as gods. And in one tiger reserve where their right to stay was recognized, tiger numbers soared.

Please join us by pledging to boycott India's tiger reserves until the government respects the rights of tribal peoples to live in and protect their ancestral forests.

I pledge to boycott Indian tiger reserves

Please help us fight against abuse in the name of conservation, for tribes, for nature, for all humanity.

Thank you for your support,

Stephen Corry
Director



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