who are the 10 famous enviromental
activists in India and their activity
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1) A Bengali by origin, Anadish Pal took to prototyping in electronics after dropping out of college in in 1982.
2)Since the early 1980s, Sunita Narain has been speaking out about the state of India’s environment. Currently the director general of the Centre for Science and Environment, and editor of the fortnightly magazine.
3)Born in Dehradun, Vandana Shiva received a master’s degree in the philosophy of science from Guelph University, Ontario in 1976, and earned a doctorate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in 1978.
4)Chandi Prasad Bhatt, who hails from Uttarakhand, founded the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a mother organisation to the Chipko movement, in which he was one of the pioneers.
5) Pradip Krishen gave up film-making to photograph and write about trees for a general audience. Since 1955, Krishen began studying trees, and spending time in the jungles of Panchmarhi in Madhya Pradesh with the help of a forester friend.
6) Known as “the waterman of India”, Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management.
7) Sunderlal Bahuguna is an Indian eco-activist and Gandhian peace worker, who has been one of the leaders of the Chipko movement of the 1970s. Chipko means ‘embrace’ or ‘tree huggers’ and this vast movement has been a decentralized one with many leaders, usually village women, who have worked to protect the environment.
8) Better known as the Forest Man of India, Jadav Payeng spent 30 years of his life planting trees creating a real man-made forest of 550 hectares on one of the sandbars of the Brahmaputra river. He started by planting bamboos, after which he continued planting other species. The Molai forest created by him now encompasses an area of about 1,360 acres/550 hectares of forest.
9)Medha Patkar is an Indin social activist working for the subaltern. She has been actively involved in fighting for the rights of tribals, dalits, farmers, labourers and women facing injustice in India. Over the course of her activism she has formulated several national policies to fight against land acquisition, unorganised public sector workers and other downtrodden sections of the society.
10)Born in the Almora province of Uttarakhand in northern India, Radha Bhatt is a peace activist who has worked all her life to strengthen women’s situation and protect nature through non-violence and “padyatras”. She had initiated local campaigns against alcohol abuse, and had also led campaigns for the protection of forests against corporate degradation and polluting mines.
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