Project Elephant

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.

“They risk their lives everyday working in difficult terrains and braving myriad hostile elements – poachers, encroachers, smugglers, mafias, human-wildlife conflict, health hazards in the form of water-borne diseases, forest fires and of course, accidental deaths by wild animals.”