Jamuna Tudu
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Jamuna Tudu | |
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| Born | 19 December 1980[1] |
| Other names | Lady Tarzan |
| Years active | 1998–present [3] |
| Known for | Environmental activist |
| Spouse |
Mansingh Tudu (m. 1998) |
| Parents |
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| Awards | Padma Shri |
Jamuna Tudu (born 19 December 1980) is an Indian environmental activist. She and five other women prevented illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded into an organisation. She is called ‘Lady Tarzan’ for taking on the Timber mafias and Naxals in Jharkhand.[5]
She is also the founder of “Van Suraksha Samiti’ which prevent illegal felling of trees near her village in Jharkhand.[6][7]
Jamuna Tudu was born on 19 December 1980 in Rairangpur of, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India.[8] when she was 18 years old she decides to fight for forest and take up bows and arrows to combat and track timber mafiosi and report them to cops.[9]
Jamuna Tudu loves nature very much, her journey started in 1998. Then Jamuna reached her mother-in-law's Muturkham village in Chakulia block after her marriage. At that time the forest mafia were indiscriminately cutting down trees in the forest near Muturkham village. Seeing this condition of the forest visible from the door of the house, Jamuna decided to save the trees and hit the jungle mafia, then the process continued. Jamuna was prevented by the family from doing all this, but she set out on a campaign to unite the women of the village and save the forest. Many times they were subjected to deadly attacks,[10] but Jamuna never gave up and the decision to save the forest was upheld.[11][12]
Tudu formed "Van Suraksha Samiti' along with five other women to prevent illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded.[13][14][15]
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