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Article | Bahuguna and the seeds of struggle in the Himalayas
by Manshi Asher Sunderlal Bahuguna may have departed, but there are many formidable repositories of diverse oral and embodied knowledge that we could fall back on In the era of irreversible ecological destruction, initiatives to ‘save the environment’ mushroom every day. It is, after all, also the age of ‘solutions’. ‘Green’ is now a pre-fix […]
9th Feb 2021 | Public Statement | Uttarakhand Tragedy: ‘Natural disaster’ or ‘Willful Negligence’?
Scroll down for Hindi We express our grief and utmost anguish for the lives lost in the tragic event that occurred in Chamoli Uttarakhand. We hear that hundreds are missing and several feared dead. We are also aware that there is no clear statement from the government or any other State agency about the exact event […]
हिमालय में जल विद्युत परियोजनाओं के लिए वन हस्तांतरण व संबंधित क्षतिपूरक वनीकरण के दुष्परिणामों का खुलासा करता नया अध्ययन; वनों के दोहन से स्थानीय पर्यावरण और समुदायों को क्षति और वन हस्तांतरण के एवज में किया जा रहा सरकारी पौधारोपण भी असफल।
हिमालयी क्षेत्रों में जल विद्युत विकास को स्वच्छ और अक्षय ऊर्जा के नाम पर बढ़ावा देने की होड़ पिछले दो दशकों से चल रही है। हिमाचल में बड़े पैमाने पर इन पनबिजली परियोजनाओं और संबंधित टावर लाईनों का निर्माण हुआ है और इसके लिए हज़ारों हेक्टेयर वन भूमि का हस्तांतरण भी किया गया है। वन […]
‘WITHDRAW DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020’: 50+ organisations, environmentalists from Himalayan region write to Environment Ministry
Amending environmental norms will accelerate ecological crisis in the Himalayas ‘WITHDRAW DRAFT EIA NOTIFICATION 2020’: 50+ organisations, environmentalists from Himalayan region write to Environment Ministry More than 50 environmental groups, organisations, eminent ideologues and activists from across various states of the Himalayan region have issued a joint statement titled ‘STOP ACCELERATING ECOSYSTEMS DISTRESS IN THE […]
Opinion: Himalayan hydropower is not a green alternative
The disastrous flash floods in Uttarkhand in June 2013 turned the spotlight on a frontier region in the Western Himalayas, at least for a time. Was it a cloud burst or heavy rainfall? Could it have been predicted and prevented? Did the meteorological department mess up or was the problem the state government’s slow response? […]
URGENT SUBMISSION: ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY AUDITS PRIOR TO RE-OPENING OF INDUSTRIES AND PROJECTS TO PREVENT INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS/ACCIDENTS
Date: 18 May 2020 To, The Chief Minister, Government of Himachal Pradesh. SUBJECT: ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY AUDITS PRIOR TO RE-OPENING OF INDUSTRIES AND PROJECTS TO PREVENT INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS/ACCIDENTS Shri Jairam Thakur ji, As the government of Himachal decides to re-open the factories and industrial units in the state after a period of almost 5 weeks, […]
Stop Extension of Environment Clearance for Integrated Kashang Hydropower project in geologically fragile and ecologically diverse, tribal area Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh!
On the 30th of April 2020, a large portion of a steep mountain in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh slipped down to village Pangi destroying apple orchards and killing one Nepali migrant worker. This area in the high Himalayas, falling in the Satluj Valley, which is known for its geological and ecological vulnerability, is also […]
Article | A Bureaucratic Unmaking Forest Rights Act in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh
Written by Aditi Vajpeyi & Vaishnavi Rathore Published on Economic and Political Weekly The emergence of the Forest Rights Act reasserted the vitality of the role people play in conservation and management of natural resources and carving out legal channels for recognition of their forest rights. But, in Himachal Pradesh, the FRA suffers at the […]
9 Dec 2019 | Kinnaur tribals protest, seek FRA implementation
People from Kinnaur staged a protest at Reckong Peo today seeking speedy implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) in the tribal areas of the state and to draw the attention of the government towards the growing threat to the ecology. The protesting members of the Zila Van Adhikar Sangharsh Samiti Kinnaur were joined by […]