Learning From The Todas in the Midst of Global Environmental Change
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Dr Tarun Chhabra, Ooty (Tamil Nadu) in conversation with Dr Usha Ramanathan, Law Researcher, Cuttack (Odisha)
The Todas may well be the most sustainably-committed community in human history. At the core of some of this community's habitat remains the last remaining "wilderness" in all of India; unexplored by most. This region - the inner Nilgiris - hosts the last best hope for India's wild tigers and one of three remaining wild populations of Asian elephants. Moreover, it is a botanical collective of astonishing dimensions in which - depending on the precise season, and day (or night) - are a vast number of endemic species.
Biography
Dr Tarun Chhabra is the world’s foremost chronicler of the Todas, among the most fascinating of the Indian hill tribes. The only non-Toda to speak their language, Tarun is a passionate voice for the fast-vanishing Toda culture with its deep feeling for the land and the Earth. Apart from his life as an honorary Toda, Tarun is a dentist, and an accomplished ethnobotanist and ecologist working for the ecological revival of the Nilgiri landscape through his unique Edhkwehynawd Botanical Refuge project.
This event will take place from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on Zoom - All are Welcome
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