Grasslands support pastoralists.
Grasslands are home to unique flora and fauna.
Grasslands have better, water-efficient ways to sink carbon than tree plantations.
Yet grasslands are not part of the narrative either on conservation or livelihoods.
The grasslands support millions of pastoralist communities and their herds of indigenous livestock.
The centuries-old practice of pastoralism that provides more than 75% of India’s meat and 50% of India’s milk, faces a multitude of threats.
The impact is already visible on nomadic pastoralists, like the Dhangars in Maharashtra.
Through the eyes of a young pastoralist, Gattu, we glimpse this quiet tragedy.
With each word, a story unfolds, of a way of life that is being lost.
These are stories we rarely heed or even notice.
A film by Sabari Venu produced in collaboration with ATREE
