Indigenous Khasis struggle to sustain forest-based livelihoods in Bangladesh
via news.mongabay.com
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Bangladesh’s northeastern corner, as shown on Google Maps, features irregular green patches: pale green swaths and smaller deep green pockets. In or around each deep green area lies a Khasi village, or punjee, with tin-roofed cottages on hillocks, indicating homes to one of Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities. The Khasis live on betel leaf-based agroforestry, now strained […]