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How Sunderban’s Honey Collectors fight all odds to earn their living

Honey Collection

CJP Grassroots Fellow Ripon Sheikh brings us the story of Sunderban’s Honey Collectors, who travel into the depths of the forest and collect wild honey to earn their living.
These people are surviving crouching tigers, stinging bees and a stringent Lockdown to keep alive a traditional form of livelihood.

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