Kanikaran, cynical of the forest department, recalls a time when he wasn’t so. He recalls a 1950’s proposal in which the Kanis were asked to move out of the forest to another area. “The divisional forest officer at that time differed,” said Kanikaran. “He advised us to go back to our original lands and not get entrenched in urban life. Such officials don’t exist now.”
This is the second of a three-part series on tiger reserves. The first, on the man-animal conflict, appeared on Tuesday. The third will be about the science of conservation in India.
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