Bahuguna warns against river-linking
Noted environmentalist and pioneer of the Chipko Movement Sunderlal Bahuguna reiterated his opposition to the proposed river linking project by the Centre, which has already created much hue and cry
Noted environmentalist and pioneer of the Chipko Movement Sunderlal Bahuguna reiterated his opposition to the proposed river linking project by the Centre, which has already created much hue and cry
Industrial tree plantations for wood, palm oil and rubber are generating an increasing number of confl icts between companies and local populations. Relying on a wide-ranging literature review, this article analyses the alleged impacts of such plantations, the protesters involved, and the modalities of the confl icts.
DH News Service, Sirsi: Soil, water and forest are the basis of human life and they should be conserved for the future generation, environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna said here on Sunday.
Our policy kept people out of their forests and made them trespassers in their own land Sunita Narain / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 0:16 IST The Forest Rights Act of 2006
For the first time in 30 years, Chipko was being remembered at its anniversary. And the government played spoil-sport. Incidentally, it was late last year in distant Canada that social activist
Stressing the need for sustainable development of the environment, eminent environmentalist and Chipko leader, Mr Sunder Lal Bahuguna, today termed forests as "a community of living beings', which
New Delhi: In 2007 Delhi was in the middle of its own Chipko Movement. Hundreds of residents were out on the streets protesting the indiscriminate felling of trees to make way for its BRT corridor. Chief
D Daniel Raj | ENS ENVIRONMENTALISTS here took the Chipko movement to a whole new level on Monday by performing a milk abhishekam for trees that were felled to widen roads ahead of the World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to be held in June.
KOHIMA, Nov 12: Noted environmentalist and Chipko Movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna has urged the Nagas to initiate a mass movement to stop exploitation of nature for materialistic development in the mountainous regions.
The people of Assam, and especially those dependent on agriculture, would endure extremely difficult times if mega dams were constructed on rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, which flowed into the State. This was the view conveyed by the father of the Chipko movement, and noted environmentalist, Sundaralal Bahuguna in an exclusive interview to The Assam Tribune today.
Noted environmentalist and Chipko movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna today warned that the next World War, if come about, would be fought over no other issue but water which is getting extremely precious day by day given the onslaught of climate change.
Guwahati: Noted environmentalist and Chipko movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna has brought the 'Save Himalaya, Save Water, Save Life' movement to the North-East India to raise mass awareness over the dire need to protect and preserve the ecology of Himalayan region against the onslaught of global warming.
This book is about a people's movement to save their forests and trees. Chipko movement started in 1970s in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh and saw active participation of women in the forefront.
The second phase of construction of the controversial Tehri Dam project has started with the beginning of the submergence of this township by the waters of the Bhagirathi. The 'Chipko' movement
As the world’s largest multi-ethnic democracy, India has a federal constitution that is well-equipped with administrative devices that offer apparent recognition and measures of self-governance to territorially
<p>The main premise of political ecology is that environmental change is not a neutral process amenable to technical management. Rather, it has political sources, conditions and ramifications that impinge on socio-economic inequalities and political process.
A look at the achievements and failures of a movement that began spontaneously in the Garhwal region two decades ago to protect trees from human rapacity.
AS A PEOPLE'S movement, Chipko's achievements are well beyond the ordinary. Launched by a small organisation called the Dasholi Gram Samaj Mandal in the tiny village of Gopeshwar in the Garhwal
The mainstream paradigm of understanding grass-root environmentalism in India as “environmentalism of the poor” might be challenged by an alternative prototype forest movement in the Bengal Dooars prior
Jardhargaon is a village at a height of 1500 metres situated in the hilly district of Tehri Garhwal in the state of Uttarakhand in North India. Jardhargaon came under the influence of Chipko Movement through the active involvement of one of its residents, Vijay Jardhari. In 1980 a Van Suraksha Samiti or VSS (Forest Protection Committee) was set up by local people.