OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced.

Detailed explanation-2: -In central India, the Scheduled Tribes are usually referred to as Adivasis, which literally means Indigenous Peoples. With an estimated population of 104 million, they comprise 8.6% of the total population.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples are so-called because they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants-according to one definition-of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived.