Jamuna Tudu

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{{Infobox person
| name = Jamuna Tudu
| image = 2017 Women Transforming India Award to Ms. Jamuna Tudu Matrukham (Jharkhand) – Maturkham’s Lady Tarzan, organised by the NITI Aayog, in New Delhi on August 29, 2017 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = in 2017
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|mf=yes|1980|12|19}}<ref>{{cite news |title=महिला ब्रिगेड संग जंगल माफिया से लेती हैं लोहा, राष्ट्रपति से सम्मान पा चुकी हैं जमुना टुडू |url=https://www.jansatta.com/photos/picture-gallery/lady-tarzan-jamuna-tudu-takes-timber-mafia-know-unknown-facts-see-photos/1117888/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Jansatta |date=13 August 2019 |language=hi}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Mayurbhanj]], [[Odisha]], India <ref>{{cite news |title=लकड़ी माफिया से निपट रही झारखंड की ये लेडी टार्जन |url=https://hindi.firstpost.com/india/odisha-born-jamuna-tudu-the-lady-tarzan-who-dares-timber-mafia-in-jharkhand-pr-66394.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Firstpost Hindi |date=12 November 2017}}</ref>
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| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Lady Tarzan
| years_active = 1998–present <ref>{{cite news |title=पेड़ों की रक्षा के लिए दांव पर लगाई अपनी जान, पद्मश्री जमुना टुडू को अब दुनिया कहती है लेडी टार्जन |url=https://hindi.news18.com/news/jharkhand/east-singhbum-padmashree-jamuna-tudu-alone-fought-to-protect-trees-now-being-called-lady-tarzan-jhnj-2895799.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=News18 India}}</ref>
| known_for = environmental activist
| awards = Padma Shri
| mother = Bobyshree Murmu
| father = Bagrai Murmu
| spouse = {{Marriage|Mansingh Tudu|1998}}<ref>{{cite news |title=पर्यावरण संरक्षण के संकल्प ने गांव की बहू को दिलाया वन रत्न सम्मान : यमुना |url=https://www.bhaskar.com/news/JHA-MAT-latest-chakulia-news-021503-3087514-NOR.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Dainik Bhaskar |date=30 July 2017 |language=hi}}</ref>
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'''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. She is called ‘Lady Tarzan’ for taking on the Timber mafias and Naxals in Jharkhand.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lady Tarzan ready for bigger challenge |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/lady-tarzan-ready-for-bigger-challenge/cid/1742339 |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref>

She is also the founder of “Van Suraksha Samiti’ which prevent illegal felling of trees near her village in Jharkhand.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meet Padma Shri Jamuna Tudu: ‘Lady Tarzan’ Of Jharkhand Forests |url=https://kalingatv.com/features/meet-padma-shri-jamuna-tudu-lady-tarzan-of-jharkhand-forests/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=KalingaTV |date=30 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohan |first1=Shriya |title=She came, she saw, she saved |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/know/she-came-she-saw-she-saved/article9978036.ece# |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=@businessline |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Jamuna Tudu was born on 19 December 1980 in Rairangpur of, [[Mayurbhanj]], [[Odisha]], India.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bollywood discovers Chakulia’s Lady Tarzan |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/bollywood-discovers-chakulias-lady-tarzan/cid/1695706 |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> when she was 18 years old she decides to fight for forest and take up bows and arrows to combat and track timber mafiosi and report them to cops.<ref>{{cite news |title=Independence Day: इन 5 आदिवासी महिला कार्यकर्ताओं ने उठाई बुलंद आवाज, 'आजादी' के सही अर्थ से कराया रूबरू |url=https://hindi.news18.com/news/lifestyle/independence-day-2020-these-five-tribal-women-activists-raised-loud-voice-got-aware-of-the-true-meaning-of-freedom-pur-3203770.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=News18 India}}</ref>

Jamuna Tudu loves nature very much, her journey started in 1998. Then Jamuna reached her mother-in-law's Muturkham village in Chakulia block after her marriage. At that time the forest mafia were indiscriminately cutting down trees in the forest near Muturkham village. Seeing this condition of the forest visible from the door of the house, Jamuna decided to save the trees and hit the jungle mafia, then the process continued. Jamuna was prevented by the family from doing all this, but she set out on a campaign to unite the women of the village and save the forest. Many times they were subjected to deadly attacks,<ref>{{cite news |title=How a tribal woman took on a forest mafia and won |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/lifestyle/women/2017/11/05/tribal-woman-jamuna-tudu-fought-forest-mafia.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=OnManorama}}</ref> but Jamuna never gave up and the decision to save the forest was upheld.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/lady-tarzan-jamuna-tudu-who-takes-on-timber-mafia-4934084/ | title=Lady Tarzan Jamuna Tudu who takes on timber mafia | publisher=Indian Express | date=12 November 2017 | access-date=26 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=जंगल बचेगा तो पृथ्वी सुरक्षित रहेगा : यमुना टुडू |url=https://www.livehindustan.com/jharkhand/ghatsila/story-jungle-will-survive-if-earth-will-be-safe-yamuna-tudu-2520514.html |access-date=7 September 2019 |work=livehindustan.com |language=hi}}</ref>

Tudu formed "Van Suraksha Samiti' along with five other women to prevent illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://padmaawards.gov.in/PDFS/2019AwardeesList.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Padma Awards ,Government of India | access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/lifestyle/people/story/jamuna-tudu-van-suraksha-samiti-team-protect-jungle-deforestation-mathurgham-jharkhand-lifest-1091769-2017-11-22 | title=Jamuna Tudu and her team protect the jungle around her village from the forest mafia | publisher=India Today | work=Srijani Ganguly | date=22 November 2017 | access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref><ref name=fe>{{cite web | url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/women-transforming-india-awards-2017-meet-the-12-incredible-winners-who-transformed-india/831531/ | title=Women Transforming India Awards 2017: Meet the 12 incredible winners who transformed India | publisher=Financial Express | date=29 August 2017 | access-date=30 January 2019}}</ref>

==Awards==
* [[Padma Shri]] 2019 <ref>{{cite news |title=झारखंड की चार हस्तियों को पद्मश्री पुरस्कार |url=https://www.jagran.com/jharkhand/ranchi-four-people-of-jharkhand-padma-shri-award-18892707.html |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=Dainik Jagran |language=hi}}</ref>
* [[Women Transforming India]] 2017 <ref>{{cite web |title=Women Transforming India - Jamuna Tudu |url=https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2018-12/Women-Transforming-India-2017-Awardees.pdf |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>
* [[Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards]] 2014 <ref>{{cite news |title=This Tribal Lady & Her Band Saved 50 Hectares of Forests for 20 Years! |url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/120193/this-tribal-lady-and-her-band-of-women-saved-50-hectares-of-forests-for-20-years/ |access-date=16 August 2020 |work=The Better India |date=6 November 2017}}</ref>
* Women Transforming India - 2017 <ref>{{cite web |title=Women Transforming India - NITI Aayog |url=https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2018-12/Women-Transforming-India-2017-Awardees.pdf |website=niti.gov.in}}</ref>

She was a winner in the 2017 [[Women Transforming India]] awards.<ref name=fe />

She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the [[Padma Shri]] in 2019. She was awarded the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/reese-witherspoon-jennifer-lawrence-talk-sexual-harassment|title=Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lawrence Talk About Sexual Harassment|last=Kh|first=Tara|last2=elwal|date=2017-10-18|website=SheThePeople TV|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-05}}</ref> 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.<ref name=joingreens>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/jharkhand/green-warriors-to-join-forces/cid/1753819|title=Green warriors to join forces|website=www.telegraphindia.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-10}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=मन की बात कार्यक्रम में झारखंड की जमुना टू डू के द्वारा किए गए कार्यों की सराहना |url=http://newstodayjharkhand.com/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A8-%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4-%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE-%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82-%E0%A4%9D%E0%A4%BE/ |access-date=7 September 2019}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist | 30em}}[https://www.kotapointedu.in/]{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Social Work}}

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