{"id":2768,"date":"2015-07-23T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:19:54","slug":"undercover-tv-exposes-mass-tribal-evictions-from-indian-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/07\/undercover-tv-exposes-mass-tribal-evictions-from-indian-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover TV exposes mass tribal evictions from Indian tiger reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2769\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kanha-tribal-evictions.png\" alt=\"kanha tribal evictions\" width=\"412\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kanha-tribal-evictions.png 412w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kanha-tribal-evictions-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/kanha-tribal-evictions-103x67.png 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fnx6MmD6TI8\"><span class=\"s2\">special undercover investigation<\/span><\/a> by French TV channel Canal Plus has exposed the illegal eviction of thousands of tribal people from Kanha Tiger Reserve, says\u00a0a leading organisation campaigning for the rights of tribal people. According to Survival the tribal people are being evicted &#8220;in the name of conservation, while more than a hundred thousand tourists are welcomed in every year.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Survival\u2019s Director Stephen Corry said&#8221; \u201cSo-called \u2018conservation\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/parks\"><span class=\"s2\">continues to destroy tribal peoples as it has for generations<\/span><\/a>. They\u2019ve never threatened the tigers, who would do better if the tribes remained and the tourists stopped. Tribal peoples are generally better conservationists anyway than industrial-sized NGOs like WWF which stand by in silence while the parks forcibly evict people like Sukhdev and his family. It\u2019s time these evictions are stopped and this scandal exposed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"p1\">In Brief<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">A TV reporter visited families of the Baiga tribe evicted from Kanha in 2014 and found they were\u00a0struggling to survive after being scattered in surrounding villages.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The TV crew gained access to a confidential official report which lists the systematic resettlement of 22,000 people from tiger reserves across the region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">India\u2019s Forest Rights Act recognizes tribal communities\u2019 rights to remain on their land and harvest its resources, even when it\u2019s turned into a conservation zone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In Depth<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Hyderabad\/mass-evictions-from-tiger-reserves-french-tv\/article7454461.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original article on The Hindu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/survival\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Survival International on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/\/about\/tigers\" target=\"_blank\">Support Survival&#8217;s Parks need People campaign<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In the Future<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribal people are being evicted from Kanha tiger reserve while thousands of tourists are welcomed each year, claims a new undercover TV report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,138,140],"tags":[215],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Undercover report says tribal people evicted from tiger reserve<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tribal people 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