Jamuna Tudu – Protector Of Trees A.K.A Lady Tarzan of Jharkhand

There are always some people who make quick money by selling trees illegally from the forest.

Jamuna Tudu and five other women confronted a timber mafia in Jharkhand & prevented illegal felling of trees near her village.

This group later expanded into an organisation called “Lady Tarzan” for taking on timber mafia & naxals in Jharkhand, Jamuna Tudu was at the forefront of this .

Born on 19 December, 1980, at Mayurbhanj, Odisha, to Bagrai & Bobyshree Murmu, Jamuna married Mansingh Tudu in1988.

Jamuna Tudu loved nature from her childhood as she grew up in the lap of nature.

By 1998 she had started her journey as an eco activist in her Muturkham village in Chakulia Block of Jharkhand.

At that time the forest mafia were indiscriminately cutting down trees in the forest near her village. Seeing this condition of the forest from the door of her house, Jamuna decided to save the trees.

Armed with a bow & arrows she, along with her group of five women confronted the jungle mafia & saved the forest.

Her family tried to prevent her, but she continued her campaign of safeguarding the trees.

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