A Chipko pioneer warns against destructive development, linking climate crisis, forest rights, and people’s movements. Learn why grassroots action matters.

Every year on Women’s Day, we celebrate leadership, courage and the quiet revolutions women have sparked across generations. In India, when conversations turn to eco-feminism, they often begin with ...

On May 21, 2021, Sunderlal Bahuguna passed away from COVID-19 at the age of 94. His passing didn’t make the news in any of the major outlets in the US. But it got extensive coverage in India. Bahugana ...

When contractors came to her Himalayan forest to cut down thousands of trees, Gaura Devi rallied the women of her village and marched into the woods. Armed with only their bare hands and fierce ...

Launched in September 1983 in Karnataka’s Salkani village, the Appiko Movement saw locals embrace trees to halt commercial logging . Led by Panduranga Hegde, this "Southern Chipko" successfully ...

Gaura Devi, a village leader from Reni in Uttarakhand, played a pivotal role in the Chipko Movement by leading women to protect forests from commercial logging in 1974. Her peaceful yet resolute stand ...

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 ...

Maharashtra Water Minister Girish Mahajan on Thursday stated that trees cannot be cut down forcefully or without the necessary approvals, in response to a citizens' protest in Nashik against the ...

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 ...