Landmarks on the Chipko trail
1973 • Chipko is born when villagers of Mandal, near Gopeshwar, led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, stop contractors of an Allahabad-based sports goods company,
1973 • Chipko is born when villagers of Mandal, near Gopeshwar, led by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal, stop contractors of an Allahabad-based sports goods company,
Veteran environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhat is the latest among the prominent figures to criticise the "unwarranted" action against the Uttarakhand agitation by the Uttar Pradesh police. The Chipko
Village commons might suffer if forest rights act is not implemented well in Himachal Pradesh The Himachal Pradesh government has asked forest dwellers in the state to put forward their claims to forest rights. But it is being cautious in implementing the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or fra. The act is being implemented only
Nandadevi.org & mountainshperds.com riding high Lata is an address of protest and conflict. It was the village in the higher alpine pasture areas of Chamoli, Uttaranchal, where the first
Though the Chipko movement emerged out of protests against rampant deforestation in the Himalays, the agitation later influenced the environmental debate by putting people at the centre of the whole
When Sunderlal Bahuguna and his followers in the Himalayan foothills hugged pine trees to protect them from the timber mafia's axe on one could have imagined that the Chipko movement would
The followers of the legendary Gauri Devi, who championed the cause of the magnificent Deodars in the higher reaches of Garhwal and triggered off the Chipko Movement in the seventies, have entered
Villagers who participated in the Chipko movement of the seventies are up in arms again as thousands of trees are reportedly being cut so that two corridors of high tension transmission lines to
Chipko 2001 coordinator J P Dabral has leveled charges of corruption and mismanagement against Uttaranchal government and the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests at a press conference held at
The popular 'Chipko' movement that focussed worldwide attention on people protecting their forests won the war against the timber contractors but has lost the battle with the government. The forests
Noted novelist and Booker prize winner Arundhati Roy is sharing the big prize money won by her recently with a group of former Chipko men. These members of a well-known environmental movement in the
The Chipko movement halted commercial tree felling in UP's Chamoli district, but the women who led it are still fighting corrupt and indifferent forest officials and fund constraints to maintain the pace of development
DEWAN SINGH AGE 95 VILLAGE LATA He remembers accompanying the last expedition to Nanda Devi peak, the country's second highest peak, which falls within the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve (NDBR).
Environmental literature plays an important role in moulding innocent minds to think and understand green.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi takes a keen interest in the development of her country's science and technology. Here, she talks to Anil Agarwal
Though women were the primary participants in Chipko, men and children were also involved in the movement at various levels.
Chandi Prasad Bhatt is an Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother-organization to the Chipko
WHEN I first visited the Alaknanda valley in the 1960s, there were few footprints on the path leading to the Hemkund-Lokpal shrine and the Valley of Flowers and nature was resplendent in all its
THE GENERAL reaction to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) in the UP hill region of Uttarakhand is, "Hum paryavaran shabd se hi tang aa gaye hai." (We are fed up of the word environment.) The cry
Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna's fast, undertaken to highlight the dangers of the Tehri dam project, has lasted for more than 40 days. This is the fourth fast by the 72-year-old Chipko