The Gold for Sustainable Leadership: Conservation goes to Forest Post!
Started by an agroforestry expert and an ecologist, Forest Post collaborates with and empowers indigenous forest-dependent communities in Kerala’s Western Ghats to reduce the pressure on resources, while harvesting and promoting forest produce sustainably. Their work is in sync with global efforts to celebrate the wisdom and role of communities in the conservation of biodiversity.
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Started by an agroforestry expert and an ecologist, Forest Post collaborates with and empowers indigenous forest-dependent communities in Kerala’s Western Ghats to reduce the pressure on resources, while harvesting and promoting forest produce sustainably. Their work is in sync with global efforts to celebrate the wisdom and role of communities in the conservation of biodiversity.
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00:00 Forest Post was created as a supportive and fair market link between the value added forest
00:14 produced that our women, our group of self-help group women in the two river basins or in
00:20 the western slope of the western Ghats in central Kerala, in the Karivudu River Basin
00:25 and the Chalakudi River Basin, what they produce and an appreciative and discerning and concerned
00:31 buyer who is on the lookout for just such a produce and does not find it in the market
00:37 because with Karikaduva collective produce itself, we found that there is a need in the
00:43 market which is not being currently met.
00:46 Our women's collectives are based in the western slope of the western Ghats in the river basins
00:52 of Karuvannur and Chalakudi in central Kerala.
00:57 The life of an Adivasi leaves a very light footprint on the forest and as long as they
01:04 continue engaging with the forest, they preserve a certain knowledge of its resources, they
01:11 keep an eye on its distribution, a kind of guardianship.
01:16 [Music]