Introduction
Jamuna Tudu is an Indian environmental activist. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri. In 2014, she was awarded the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award. She is called Lady Tarzan for taking on the Timber mafia in Jharkhand.
She formed "Van Suraksha Samiti' along with 5 other women to prevent illegal felling of trees near her village and this later expanded.
She was a winner in the 2017 Women Transforming India awards.
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.