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🗓️ 19 January 2024
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In the early 2000s, a woman called Jamuna Tudu set out on a mission to protect her home state of Jharkhand's forests from India's so-called timber mafia.
She inspired thousands of people to care for their natural environment and established an army of women to fight back against the illegal cutting down of trees.
Her conservation efforts have led to the country's media dubbing her 'Lady Tarzan', and she is now known across India for her bravery.
She speaks to George Crafer about her run-ins with the mafia and her hero status.
(Photo: Jamuna Tudu amongst the trees she loves. Credit: Jamuna Tudu)
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0:27.2 | podcast we've got on BBC Sounds. This is the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service with me George Craver. |
0:39.0 | Today we're going back to India in the mid 2000s when a woman known as Lady Tarzan stood up to the so-called |
0:45.6 | timber mafia. Her bravery and love for nature has inspired thousands of Indians to protect |
0:51.0 | their vast forests and jungles. |
0:53.0 | One night at 1.30 a.m. around 7 to 8 men broke into my house, |
1:00.0 | and they tied up my husband and stole everything they found. |
1:05.0 | To understand what has happened here, we've got to go back to the 1980s when a young girl called |
1:10.0 | Jumunatudu learned to protect her surrounding natural habitat with her dad. |
1:14.3 | They was born in Mayur Banish district of Odysse. |
1:21.1 | There used to be big stones there, the size of mountains. |
1:25.4 | When I used to go there with my father, I used to see how empty it was and how strong the |
1:31.1 | sunlight was. My father used to take me to plant trees and today that |
1:36.6 | area is the green forest. |
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