 The Paliyan are not very willing agents of all this destruction; but with their traditional hunting - gathering economy no longer a practical proposition, they are dependent on forest produce collection for a living.As such, they have been directly responsible for the destruction of many species, including the cinnamon through bark collection.But now with only a small population of cinnamon trees surviving deep in the core of the forest, the Paliyan have informed the contractor that 'the cinnamon has been exhausted, and leave these trees alone'





Mike Schwartz

Mike Schwartz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Santa Barbara, California.