Kolkata: In front of Puja, Citybased NGO Society for Heritage and Ecological Researches (Sher) distributes 2,800 new clothing sets among people living around Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, tribal settlements in Hooghly, where people are still practicing traditional hunting, and the community Which lives in human-elephants in the conflict in West Midnapore.
Beneficiaries are girls and poor boys aged between 5 and 10 years, widows and men and women from the economically weaker parts.
People struggle since 2020 after the Pandemic and Typhoon Amphan and Yaas.
According to Joydip Kundu from Sher, the conflict of wildlife cannot be reduced isolate people who share space with wildlife and ecosystems.
“The Conservation Sher’s approach has evolved to cover this principle to help the main stakeholders of the impact of wildlife impacts from the beginning.
By joining the West Bengque Forest Department, we have implemented a number of participatory conservation initiatives and strives to win support from the suburban community living in forest areas And non-forests with rich biodiversity since a decade, “he said.
Since the last seven years, NGOs chose the celebration of the Puja Durga celebration to distribute new clothing sets to children and adults from the marginal community the impact of wildlife impacts from the mainstream, Kundu added.