Lion: West Bengal: Durga Puja Gifts for Children in Human-Animal Conflict Zones | Kolkata News – Times of India

Kolkata: Forward prayer, city based NGO Society for Heritage and Ecological Research (Lion) Distributed 2,800 sets of new clothes to the communities living around the Sundarbans tiger reserve, in tribal settlements Hooghly, where people still practice traditional hunting, and communities living in the human-elephant conflict zones of West Midnapore.
The beneficiaries are underprivileged girls and boys in the age group of 5 to 10 years, widows and men and women from economically weaker sections.
People have been struggling since 2020 after the pandemic and cyclone Amphan and Yaas.
according to joydeep Kundu According to SHER, human-wildlife conflicts cannot be reduced by isolating those who share space with wildlife and its ecosystem.
“The lion conservation approach has evolved since its inception incorporating this principle of helping key stakeholders of wildlife impact areas. By joining hands with the Forest Department of West Bengal, we have implemented several participatory conservation initiatives and For a decade now trying to win over the support of fringe residential communities in both forest and non-forest areas with rich biodiversity.
For the past seven years, the NGO selects the festive season Durga Puja Kundu said to distribute new sets of clothes to children and adults from marginalized communities of wildlife impact areas, which are cut off from the mainstream.

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