Green and blue milestones of independent India
The history of modern India's forests, water and soil is full of stories, life, resistance and hope. Laws & Campaigns 1973: Chipko Movement, the first people-led environment conservation movement in independent India When deforestation was rampant, a group of women in the Himalayan region of today’s Uttarakhand hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them, giving life to
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