Adivasis demand halt to tiger safari push, evictions in south India forests

 Indigenous communities in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are protesting wildlife tourism and tiger reserve expansion. They accuse authorities and conservation groups of commercializing ancestral lands, evicting families, and ignoring their rights. A joint declaration demands an immediate halt to relocations and recognition of their land rights, calling forced conservation ‘colonization’. Indigenous communities in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are protesting wildlife tourism and tiger reserve expansion. They accuse authorities and conservation groups of commercializing ancestral lands, evicting families, and ignoring their rights. A joint declaration demands an immediate halt to relocations and recognition of their land rights, calling forced conservation ‘colonization’.