By Manon Koningstein | Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
For many indigenous communities in the world, forests are much more than just trees: they store souls and spirits and are of great cultural and religious value. In India there are over 100.000 of these sacred forests, mostly existing of forest fragments in agricultural landscapes, where community members are actively involved in their protection and management, providing important refuges for conservation of biological diversity, including medicinal plants.
Sacred groves
In the WeForest project in the Khasi Hills, the local Khasi tribes have been preserving this forest for thousands of years, and believe it belongs to the local deity Labasa, who protects this forest and their community from anything bad happening to them. It is therefore entirely forbidden to hunt, cut trees or take anything from out of the forest.
WeForest, with your support, helps members of self-help groups and farmer’s clubs in the Khasi Hills with activities such as training and financial support to pursue ecotourism initiatives, animal husbandry, food establishments and tree nurseries. This way we are restoring forests, protecting valuable cultural practices and providing additional income sources for the Khasi tribes.
Read more about our project in India here.
By Manon Koningstein | Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
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