1 | The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm. | |
2 | The traditional quebradeira communities also use the leaves of the tall babassu palm tree for roof thatch, woven house walls, and basket-making, while the trunks can be used as building materials. | |
3 | The victims are being treated at the Baba Farid centres for special children in Bathinda - where there are two coal-fired thermal plants - and in nearby Faridkot. | |
4 | Since then, the MIQCB has successfully pushed for passage of several municipal laws that have guaranteed the quebradeiras access to babassu palm trees on both public and privately-owned land. | |
5 | Thus, harvesting the babassu coconuts is more similar to farming than other activities involving more widely dispersed wild-growing trees or vegetation, such as rubber-tapping in the Amazon jungle. |