Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Ash tress stand tall in the forest next to Mandal village. Residents of the village staged the first Chipko movement in 1973 to save trees that Allahabad-based Symonds Co wanted to fell to make sports goods
Cheta Devi from the Mandal valley in Chamoli district. Earlier, she would leave home at four in the morning to collect fodder from the steep mountainsides and return by noon. These days she collects fodder from the forest people have grown next to the village and harvests nutrient-rich napier grass planted along her farm
Cheta Devi from the Mandal valley in Chamoli district. Earlier, she would leave home at four in the morning to collect fodder from the steep mountainsides and return by noon. These days she collects fodder from the forest people have grown next to the village and harvests nutrient-rich napier grass planted along her farm
Cheta Devi from the Mandal valley in Chamoli district. Earlier, she would leave home at four in the morning to collect fodder from the steep mountainsides and return by noon. These days she collects fodder from the forest people have grown next to the village and harvests nutrient-rich napier grass planted along her farm
Cheta Devi from the Mandal valley in Chamoli district. Earlier, she would leave home at four in the morning to collect fodder from the steep mountainsides and return by noon. These days she collects fodder from the forest people have grown next to the village and harvests nutrient-rich napier grass planted along her farm
Bablu Chauhan (standing), a farmer in Sonipat, cleans carrot with the help of labourers. He says he will not recover the Rs 30,000 he had spent on the crop because there are not enough buyers