Rudraprayag: Chipko was a movement to make locals self-reliant and give them rightful access to environmental resources, said Ramesh Pahari, one of the foremost leaders of the Chipko Movement. Ramesh ...

Women were the main drivers of the movement, with many immortal images of them hugging trees to prevent their being cut down. The Chipko Movement began on 26 March 1974 in the small valley of ...

Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna of the Chipko movement fame and his wife Vimla, participates in a Chipko rally to save the trees on LBC road Photo: Getty Images It has been 50 years since Gaura ...

In a city which has lost over 50,000 trees to the Delhi Metro alone, a combination of air pollution, dust storms and water crisis have perhaps made trees an issue worth standing up for ...

To save a large number of forest trees that are to get cut for the construction of a road between Fardapur and Savaladbara in Soygaon taluka of Aurangabad district, wildlife activists have started a ...

Sunderlal Bahuguna (January 9, 1927 — May 21, 2021) was known to the world as the leader of the Chipko Andolan. On March 27, 2023, as Chipko turned 50, Bahuguna’s role in shaping the landmark global ...

Writing history, especially contemporary history, is always a challenge on account of the multiple versions of the same occurrences. Even the dates are contested. But, in general, the ‘printed word’ ...

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 ...

Renowned environmentalist and pioneer of the Chipko movement Sunderlal Bahuguna died battling Covid-19 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, on Friday. Bahuguna, 94, was battling ...