Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, Parambikulam Road, Muthalamada South, Palakkad, Kerala, India
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PALAKKAD
Parambikulam is home of four indigenous communities residing in six tribal settlements with 296 families and total population of 1254 individuals. Till the year 2000, the people in the settlements were solely dependent on the timber operations in the plantations of the reserve. Ban on timber extraction for commercial purpose from the Protected Areas by the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court resulted in large scale unemployment among the local tribal communities which in turn increased over-exploitation of natural forests for non-timber forest produces, fishing in the reservoirs, collection of firewood, small scale poaching etc.