Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA)

Debunking the myth of protected areas through grassroots dialogue and resistance. [email protected]

[Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International - IPRI @IPRightsIntl]

Tiger conservation must not come at the expense of Indigenous lives and rights❗
In Odisha, India, Indigenous Adivasi communities are being harassed, displaced, and criminalized under the pretext of wildlife protection.

🔗 Read the full statement at: https://t.co/9JAvzuCbWP

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

Adivasi women in Bakua village, located inside Odisha’s Similipal Tiger Reserve, have alleged that they were sexually assaulted, physically abused, and humiliated by forest department personnel earlier this month, triggering widespread condemnation from rights groups and civil society members across India.

https://t.co/ysdwGX016a

[Karvaan India @KarvaanIndia]

Adivasi women from Bakua village reveal the shocking assaults they faced from forest guards in Similipal Tiger Reserve. We must amplify their voices and demand justice! Read more: https://t.co/Peg9YRGzcw #AdivasiWomen #HumanRights

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

Testimony produced for the IPL&P program, University of Arizona, 2025:

"RESISTING EVICTION WHILE LIVING IN AN OPEN JAIL"

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

[PRESS STATEMENT]

CNAPA strongly condemns the recent atrocity, where Ho Adivasi women of Bakua village were intimidated, sexually abused, and their dignity compromised by personnel of Similipal Tiger Reserve, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

[PRESS STATEMENT]

CNAPA strongly condemns the recent atrocity, where Ho Adivasi women of Bakua village were intimidated, sexually abused, and their dignity compromised by personnel of Similipal Tiger Reserve, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

PRESS RELEASE on Forest Department's violence and atrocity against Jenu Kuruba Adivasis of Nagarahole forests, Karnataka.

[Article 14 @Article14live]

On 18 June, 52 Jenu Kuruba #Adivasi families who occupied land in Nagarhole forest #Karnataka from where they were forcibly evicted in 1986 without any compensation were ordered to leave by the forest dept which took down their huts

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[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

Update as of late afternoon:

In total 6 huts were demolished despite protests by families. Women and children were dragged out with brute force and several of have been injured. CNAPA unconditionally condemn this despotism of forest dept. 9/n

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

🚨SOS🚨NAGARAHOLE
Moments ago, nearly 250 personnel from forest dept, police and tiger protection force have arrived to forcefully demolish the huts of 52 Jenu Kuruba famililies of Karadikallu Atturu Koli inside Nagarahole forests. 1/n

[Article 14 @Article14live]

“Tiger reserves were illegally created, without our consent.”

J A Shivu led #Adivasis back into Nagarhole #tiger reserve on 5 May. #Indigenous rights are inherited, not conferred, the founder-member of @ConnectCnapa told @iyerkavi

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https://t.co/JxA5zQqBY3

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

JUST IN: 2 huts of Jenu Kurubas have been forcefully taken down so far and the families are being chased away with violent methods. We are awaiting more information. 8/n

[Kavitha Iyer @iyerkavi]

45 days since #Adivasi Jenu Kuruba families reclaimed #Karnataka #forest land from where they were evicted by force 40 yrs ago, on Wed morning they faced the same fate again. Forest & police personnel currently at the protest site. Read my report on a tribal community's struggle

[Article 14 @Article14live]

“Tiger reserves were illegally created, without our consent.”

J A Shivu led #Adivasis back into Nagarhole #tiger reserve on 5 May. #Indigenous rights are inherited, not conferred, the founder-member of @ConnectCnapa told @iyerkavi

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https://t.co/JxA5zQqBY3

[Naomi Canton @naomi2009]

https://t.co/4Z40H3bzQq
Members of the Jenu Kuruba tribe told a global press conference on Monday that India may have freedom, but Adivasis don't as they relayed their battle to reoccupy ancestral land in Nagarhole tiger reserve on May 5th where they remain in a standoff with the forest authorities.
The tribals spoke of how important it is to live on their land as it is where their deities are and where their ancestors are buried. They are rebuilding their houses and vow to stay and even die on their land. They say they know how to conserve the forest much better than environmental NGOs do and it is, believe it or not, these NGOs pushing to displace them and remove them.
@ConnectCnapa held an online press briefing today to put across the issues Adivasis are facing.

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

Please use this link to join the press conference:
https://t.co/bDAelk9O7h
Meeting ID: 995 8895 5418
Passcode: 311079

[Community Network Against Protected Areas (CNAPA) @ConnectCnapa]

📝🎤APPEAL TO MEDIA:

Listen to indigenous community leaders, researchers, lawyers and solidarity activists on the violent realities of tiger reserves in India.

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