Thirty years ago, many women of the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan (India), led by Amrita Devi, sacrificed their lives to save their khejri, sacred trees, by putting their arms around them. The Chipko story begins with this event. In the middle of the Himalayas, in the 1970s, Chipko women created the Hug The Tree Movement.…
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Because ecocide must be considered an international crime
Because ecocide must be considered an international crime. At the Nuremberg trials, which began on November 20, 1945, the allied forces prosecuted leading Nazi leaders for the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and World War II. They were accused of what Winston Churchill had called “a crime without a name” just four years earlier: genocide,…