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INDIA | Saturday, 29 June 2013 | Views [556] | View Smaller Image

Tea time with tribal Lisu Grandma and she shared us that they are originally from Myanmar,they are knowing for their excellent hunting skills,Apart from the poaching of tigers, musk deer, bears and otters are commonly killed. Elephants have almost disappeared.Young Lisus are now being engaged in protection squads in the Namdapha.

Chakma tribal with a Primitive smoking bamboo apparatus . He said we (Chakmas) were settled in the Namdapha by the Indian government in the 1963, That time there was no economic options besides labour work and marginal farming. They are poaching for meat & earn money to selling wild animal body parts.

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malayan giant squirrel climbing down,this is also one of the largest squirrel in the world.The species is endemic to deciduous, mixed deciduous, and moist evergreen forests of peninsular India.

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