Collision Between Conservation and Indigenous People in India

It isn’t always the tigers’ fault, nor the forest peoples. Sometimes it’s the politicians.

By: Gregory McCann

Photo from International Union for Conservation of Nature

Survival International, a globe-spanning NGO that champions tribal peoples around the world, recently made headlines with a charge that India’s indigenous Adivasi, who inhabited South Asia even before the arrival of the Dravidians and Indo-Aryans who now dominate, are being force…