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“Opposing the tribals’ traditional rights are various nature conservation societies and voluntary groups that want indigenous people out of the forests in the interests of conserving the elephants and the forest ecosystem. “But the tribal people have at least as good a right as elephants to live in the forests,” has been Janu’s answer to the conservationists. ” - Asia Times

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