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Movement archive · India
India1973 onward
A forest protection movement in the Garhwal Himalaya, in today's Uttarakhand. Village women, who depended on the forests for fuel, fodder and water, became its most visible protectors, famously holding on to trees to stop them being felled.
Gaura Devi and the women of Reni village; Chandi Prasad Bhatt; Sunderlal Bahuguna.
Local control over forests, an end to commercial felling, recognition of women's labour and knowledge.
Read alongside ecofeminist writing, and critiques of how the movement has been told.