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Chipko 50 years on: Uttarakhand villagers describe how life has changed

Fifty years after the birth of India’s most famous environmental movement, climate disasters are forcing residents of Raini village to leave the land where Chipko started

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The women who took part in the Chipko movement 50 years ago now live at the whims of climate change

Uttarakhand’s Raini village, which gave birth to the famous environmental movement, is becoming uninhabitable.

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