Traditional Knowledge & Food

We should engage in traditional conservation so that we can inform future generations about herbs and traditional songs, ensuring their preservation for generations to come.

— Chanda

I want to bring back the medicinal items, food items, and root vegetables found in our forest, so that they do not disappear.

— Laxmi Bagh · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

This is why we must protect our culture. We should preserve the songs, dances, and the water, forests, and land from the past so that we can inform future generations. The coming generations will use them.

— Chanda

We want to bring all the traditional medicines, including roots and herbs, that are available. And we want to save the forest. All the traditional games that were played...

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

We should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We can collect all the medicinal things found in the forest and show them to future generations and preserve them.

— Anupama Mahanand

Our culture, civilization, tradition, and culture should be protected because they are connected to water, forest, land, and earth.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We should protect our culture so that our traditions, culture, and customs remain in the future.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

Due to the cutting of trees and plants in the village, various herbs and food items are becoming extinct. We can protect them.

— Mohan AHARI · Sarera, Udaipur, Rajasthan

We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.

— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

To preserve our tradition and culture, we have to protect our heritage and we have to

— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh

The government should protect the traditions and forests of the tribals; if the tribals exist, the forests will also be safe.

— Gopal · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

To save our tradition and culture

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We should protect our culture.

— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand

We should protect our culture so that our past culture is preserved.

— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

I want to save traditional medicine, herbs, roots, and trees.

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

We want to preserve ancient languages, dances, songs, traditions, food, conservation, nurturing, etc.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

So that future generations can know about the trees and plants in the forests that protect us from disease.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We have been living in this village for approximately 100 years. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. There have been many changes in the forest; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, then within the next 20 years, along with the destruction of the forest, all types of wild animals, medicinal plants, and creepers will disappear. Camps should be organized to teach traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders to the younger generation, transfer it to the next generation, and preserve it.

— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

We have been living in this village for nearly 100 years. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. The forest has undergone many changes; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, then within the next 20 years, the forest will be destroyed, and all types of wild animals, medicinal plants, and vines will vanish. Camps should be organized to teach the younger generation traditional forest and tribal knowledge from the elders, to pass it on to the next generation, and to preserve it.

— Kumudini Chhanchan · Bhojpur, Sambalpur, Odisha

So that future generations can also know about all the trees and plants in the forests that protect us from diseases.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

We should preserve our culture so that our tribe does not become extinct and our culture stays alive.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

We should preserve our culture so that future generations know about it and to prevent the government from making our culture disappear.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

We should preserve our culture so that it remains alive in the future.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

We should protect our culture so that future generations come to know about this traditional culture and knowledge, and they do not forget their language. If we do not protect it, the indigenous community will be lost.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

It is necessary to preserve our culture because our forests, mountains, villages, nature, environment, our very blood, and everything else.

— Laxmanlal

I have been living in this village since my grandfather's time. Our tribe originated in this surrounding area. The forest has changed a lot; valuable trees, herbs, and animals have all disappeared. If we do not protect it, the forest will be destroyed within the next 20 years, and all kinds of wild animals, medicinal trees, and plants will vanish. The younger generation should be taught traditional forest and tribal knowledge from elders and transfer it to the next generation, and camps should be organized to preserve it.

— DASHARATH SINGH · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha

We should preserve our culture so that future generations also know about our cultural traditions.

— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand

We have to preserve our culture so that the coming generation can use it.

— SHIVRAM YADAV · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Our traditional mountain songs, which are connected to nature, are slowly disappearing. Therefore, we should make efforts to pass them on to the next generation.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

so that our culture can be saved

— अमर जीत · Kewata, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

The old foods that were in our memory are slowly fading away, becoming like mere remnants in a basin. Let's also talk about the forest. If those remain, our culture will also remain. It is interwoven.

— Saunri Murmu

We should protect our culture so that our generation can know about us.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh