Over email, the academic-author-traveller talks about what he finds objectionable about the conversation around the Chipko Movement, the popularity of tree plantation drives, and the way forward for ...

Residents and wildlife conservationists in Uttarakhand have announced a ‘Chipko Movement’ to save 10,000 trees in Shivalik Elephant Reserve, one of the premier reserves for pachyderms in the country, ...

Mapusa: Arambol villagers, accompanied by MLA Jit Arolkar, met chief minister Pramod Sawant late Tuesday evening to protest the controversial proposal to convert approximately 3.5 lakh sqm of forest ...

The Chipko movement, also known as the Chipko Andolan, was a forest conservation movement. It was an ecological movement that took place in the northern Himalayas segment of Uttar Pradesh (later ...

Given my interest in people’s ecological movements, I was greatly fascinated by the Chipko Andolan in Garhwal. Chandi Prasad Bhatt was a key actor in this movement, and I quickly contacted him. He and ...

Chipko Movement: Google marked 45th anniversary of the Chipko andolan with a doodle. New Delhi: Google today celebrates the 45th anniversary of Chipko Movement through a doodle. Chipko Movement refers ...

As a participant in the Chipko movement and an inhabitant of the Chipko region, I felt that what I had been reading in some books and magazines was very different from what really happened or was ...

Google Doodle is today commemorating the 45th anniversary of the famous Chipko Movement that started in the late 1973 AD in the Uttarakhand state of India. Chipko stands for "hugging trees" to prevent ...

"NO WOMAN ever had to hug a tree to protect it," says Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the founder of Chipko. "It was not necessary to do so, for the mere threat was enough." The concept of hugging a tree to ...

Parvatiya Navjeevan Ashram is situated on a small hillock overlooking the Bhilangana Valley along the Bhilangana River, one of the tributaries of the Bhagirathi, in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand ...

The Chipko movement was a turning point in the forest conservation efforts in India. During the 1970s, when reckless cutting of trees started affecting people's livelihoods, the villagers from ...