Friday, March 25, 2016

Ladies who became mother in an early age

Traditionally the Chepang people’s survival has depended on their skills to harvest the resources available to them in the surrounding forest. In recent years, however, government conservation policies have limited their traditional practices and little guidance has been provided to the people to help them find alternatives to replace their traditional lifestyle. The forests are now managed as Community Forests and Leasehold Forests solving some conservation issues but creating new problems for the Chepang people. The culture, language and their identity has been related to the jungle and land for Centuries. Now, they have neither their own land nor jungle. They are deprived from the right of land use in spite of being based on the land for centuries.