An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. When ...

It was a humbling experience. We were in the house where Gaura Devi— a grassroots activist and a community leader, who was one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, which gained significant momentum ...

Bhopal: Hundreds of Bhopal citizens have banded together to protect 29,000 trees in the heart of the city that are feared to be felled to clear space for new bungalows for MLAs, ministers and senior ...

Chandigarh: In the ongoing protests against the demolition of a section of the Rock Garden boundary wall and the cutting of trees, the 'Saving Chandigarh' group and other residents of the city started ...

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 ...

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 ...

A protest, inspired by the 1973 Chipko Movement to protect and preservetrees, was staged in Guwahati on Tuesday against the state’s government move to fell trees “over 100 years old” at the historic ...

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 ...

Known locally as a “young environmental guardian”, the Class III student has been motivating people to plant and protect trees, invoking memories of community-led green movements such as the historic ...

Activists have called the move unnecessary and harmful, and are warning of a Chipko-style protest, inspired by environmentalist Sundar Lal Bahuguna’s famous movement, to stop the destruction of these ...