Retracing Paths: Mapping to rebuild relationships of coexistence | Note #20, Praani
A deep dive into ATREE’s effort that is converging knowledge systems - traditional wisdom, satellite data and state records - to support forest-dwelling communities reclaim rights and their identity
Many thanks to the ATREE team, particularly Dr.Shruti Mokashi, Dr.Sharadchandra Lele and Anubhav Shori for their detailed insights that have informed this article. Find more about their work on Community Forest governance here.
Co-written and storyboarded by Labonie Roy.
Illustrations by Karunya Baskar.
Praani is our note on listening better to the voice of nature, ways of amplifying them, and finding pathways to bring them into our ways of governance. At Agami, we are deeply interested in how rivers, forests, animals, and even the winds and the stones, might speak into our deliberations on justice.
It is truly wonderful to read about the complex problems relating to village land being solved through the use of good sense, technology, and above all, the inclusion of the villagers in the effort. I wish this is applied all over the country, and that it puts to rest the relentless deforestation and misuse of village lands.