A recent ground report highlights a powerful truth —
for Sahariya families, the forest is their lifeline.

With limited employment, families depend on the forest to survive:

• Collecting mahua and forest produce for income
• Entire families — including women and children — working together
• Earning just ₹40–50 per kg to sustain daily life

🌿 Why this matters

• Shahbad forest supports hundreds of tribal families
• It provides food, income, and basic survival — not just ecology
• Losing the forest means losing livelihoods and dignity

⚠️ What’s at stake

If this forest is destroyed:

• Vulnerable Sahariya communities will be displaced
• Their primary source of income will disappear
• A way of life built around the forest will be lost forever

 
👉 This is not just about trees.
It’s about people, survival, and justice.