1. The Bishnois of Rajasthan

2. Bishnois of Rajasthan

3. Founding Guru: Jambhoji (16th cent.)

4. Khejri Trees

5. Khejarli Massacre (1730)

6. Khejarli Massacre (1730)

7. Khejarli Massacre (1730)

8. Gandhian Forest Satyagrahas & Tilari Massacre (1930s)

9. The Chipko Movement

10. Chipko “tree hugging” -- Gaura Devi
(1974)

11. Let them know they will not fell a single tree without felling one of us first. When their men raise the axe, we will embrace (chipko) the trees to protect them”
Chandi Prasad Bhatt

12. Ghanshyam Raturi, Folk-Poet of Tehri-Garhwal
Embrace the trees, and
Save them from being felled;
The property of our hills,
Save them from being looted.”
Ghanshyam Raturi, Folk-Poet of Tehri-Garhwal

13. Sunderlal & Vimla Bahuguna

14. THE ESSELEN AND THE NEW LOS PADRES DAM PROJECT
“Our birthing rock they will grind into cement. Our altars they will flood. We must stop it.'‘
Tommy “Little Bear” Nason,