Chipko Movement

Beyond street protests, a powerful fight to protect Uttarakhand’s environment is unfolding in the courtrooms. Lawyers, citizen groups, and individual petitioners are winning landmark cases that preserve forests, rivers, and wildlife corridors. This is the story of how legal action is becoming one of Uttarakhand’s most effective tools for ecological justice.

Vijay Jardhari, founder of Beej Bachao Andolan explains how to grow 12 or more crops in small landholdings that is free from any investment costs and can help you save lakhs of rupees 

Accustomed to consuming nearly 275 varieties of wild fruits, vegetables and herbs from the jungles, the Kondhs were suddenly instructed to practice monoculture and forget their culture. Here is how they stood firm.

“I would remain unfit for such an award till the flesh and blood of Mother India, in the form of precious topsoil from the Himalayas, flows down to the sea due to tree felling,” says the visionary man, explaining his rejection of the Padma Vibhushan award in 1981.

A true environmentalist in every sense, Gaura Devi is a name that few would remember but her monumental contribution is what made Chipko Movement grab the world's attention.

He was was recently conferred with the 'Jamnalal Bajaj Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Constructive Work for 2018 ' by Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation (JBF).

Children as young as eight and senior citizens as old as 83 stood in the human chain, demanding that the road destroying the sanctuary and the metro work, be stopped immediately.

A native of Ekalkhori village near Jodhpur, Ranaram Bishnoi has been defying his age for decades years now, in his crusade to turn the barren desert adjoining his village totally green.

All trees are precious, and if you see someone felling a tree in Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru, here's what you can do.

Taking inspiration from Chipko movement of 1973, Maati Baani, an indie music duo and seasoned actor, Piyush Mishra have come together to raise awareness amidst people to save the last green patch in the concrete jungles of Mumbai and fight for our trees before it is too late.