Jamuna Tudu


Jamuna Tudu is an Indian environmental activist. She and five other women prevented illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded into an organisation.

Life

Tudu formed "Van Suraksha Samiti' along with five other women to prevent illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded.

Awards

She was a winner in the 2017 Women Transforming India awards.
She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2019. She was awarded the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award 2014. She is called Lady Tarzan for taking on the Timber mafia in Jharkhand.
In 2020 it announced that she and Chami Murmu were to join forces to protect Jharkhand's forests. They were both called the Lady Tarzans in the press. Chami Murmu has 3,000 members in her organisation and together they hope to find some synergy.

Mann Ki Baat

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated her work in his Mann ki Baat addresses the people that Yamuna Tudu did the adventure of taking iron from the timber mafia and Naxalites. Not only did she save 50 hectares of forest from ravaging, but united 10,000 women and motivated them to protect trees and wildlife. It is great that today the villagers plant 18 trees on the birth of a child and 10 trees on the marriage of girls.