IRTA 2022 Grassroots Gold Winner - Limalenden Longkumer
And the Gold Award for Grassroot Heroes goes to Limalenden Longkumer!
For two long decades, Limalenden Longkumer has been leading afforestation, river restoration, waste management and responsible tourism initiatives — often without any financial support — in the Mokokchung region of northwest Nagaland, home to the Ao Naga people. A journalist by training, Longkumer has recently launched Mokokchung Times, ‘Nagaland’s first hyperlocal English daily’, even as he continues to lead the Mopungchuket Community Tourism Society (MCTS).
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For two long decades, Limalenden Longkumer has been leading afforestation, river restoration, waste management and responsible tourism initiatives — often without any financial support — in the Mokokchung region of northwest Nagaland, home to the Ao Naga people. A journalist by training, Longkumer has recently launched Mokokchung Times, ‘Nagaland’s first hyperlocal English daily’, even as he continues to lead the Mopungchuket Community Tourism Society (MCTS).
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Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:06 Mopungchuket is an ethnic Naga village and it is the most visible rural tourism destination
00:12 in Mogokchung district of Nagaland state.
00:14 Tourism has opened avenues for sustainable livelihood income generation for the village community
00:20 and it has also helped in the preservation of our indigenous cultural heritage
00:26 and our conservation efforts.
00:28 Mopungchuket is a plastic-free village and we are now working to make Mopungchuket
00:33 the first zero-waste village in Nagaland state.
00:37 Our tourism has been hit hard by the pandemic but we are now slowly reopening
00:42 and we are reorienting ourselves to seize the opportunities of the post-pandemic era.
00:48 The pandemic has reinforced our belief in the idea of sustainable community development
00:54 through responsible tourism.
00:56 [Music]