Gaura Devi led women of Reni village in 1974 to protect forests, shaping the Chipko Movement and India’s environmental ...

Discover the Appiko Movement, South India’s powerful 1983 eco-protest. Led by Panduranga Hegde, it saved the Western Ghats ...

The full-grown almond tree which provided shelter and was home to a host of birds has been chopped for the first time in 2023 and repeatedly thereafter and today the bare trunk without any branches ...

Classical Indian music trickled through Faculty Glade where more than a dozen students, faculty members and Berkeley residents gathered Friday for a midday rally. Passing students paused to admire red ...

Mumbai: Taking a leaf out of the Chipko movement's book on forest conservation from the 1970s, members of an environmental outfit from Vikhroli hugged trees along the Eastern Express Highway to ...

Environmentalists in Pune are taking their fight against the Pune River Front Development Project to the next level. They marched from Sambhaji Garden to the bank of the river Mula Mutha. ‘Chipko ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When Truphena Muthoni stepped up to a royal palm in Nyeri and ...

Over three decades, the Chipko Movement travelled from a quiet Garhwal village to the corridors of power, and eventually even helped shape the demand for a separate Uttarakhand state. Chipko and its ...