The aim is to collect this wisdom and turn it into a practical guide for forest and wildlife management—one that reflects both science and lived experience.

It's not the first-time tribal suicides in the Kerala capital has drawn national attention. After a seeming lull, a string of suicides has now come back to haunt tribal settlements on the ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Did you know that stones pelted by women don’t scare away monkeys or that bears that return to a spot three-four times suggest that they are feeling threatened and are likely to ...

Tribal communities in Wayanad have been traditionally using over 200 types of wild food plants found in the Western Ghats. He said that many are venturing into forest to collect fresh bamboo shoots.

According to the 2011 census, there are around 4,84,839 scheduled tribes in Kerala comprising over 30 groups, including the particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs).

"The Kerala government has identified 35 scheduled tribal communities and 13 other tribal communities with a number of traditional medicines and other agricultural practices. Many more are to ...

KOCHI: The reservation of posts for tribal community in local bodies aims at integrating them to the mainstream society. Tribal people are often tagged as primi ...

Rain mixed with tears on the face of 29-year-old Ponnamma as she returned home from the grave of her prematurely born twins, who died shortly after delivery on March 25. “Why did God take them? He ...

Underlining the extent and pace at which aspirational Kerala’s hapless tribal communities are being deprived of their own lands, a study for the State Planning Board by the Cochin University of ...

As per the latest statistics, 479 tribal families (230 families fully and 249 partially) are being rehabilitated under the scheme in 19 forest divisions and wildlife sanctuaries in the state.

Battling various odds from poverty to backwardness, nearly 13,000 members of various tribal communities in Kerala have been initiated into the world of letters in the last two years under ...