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Saalumarada Thimmakka from Karnataka has found happiness in planting trees. She has planted more than 350 banyan trees on both the sides of a highway near Bengaluru. She has also planted nearly

Jamuna Tudu – Protector Of Trees A.K.A Lady Tarzan of Jharkhand

May 10, 2022

There are always some people who make quick money by selling trees illegally from the forest. Jamuna Tudu and five other women confronted a timber mafia in Jharkhand & prevented illegal felling

Activism·USA

Madonna-Thunder Hawk: Indigenous American Activist

December 8, 2022

Born in1940 as Madonna Philips, Thunder Hawk was born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation. She hails from the Feather Necklace Tiospaye (extended family) & belongs to the Ochenumpa band of the Cheyenne

Activism·India

Shyam Sundar Paliwal, The Father of Ecofeminism In India

March 13, 2022

Shyam Sundar Paliwal has dedicated his life to planting trees and encouraging the wellbeing of a girl child. Paliwal lost his daughter in 2006. After coming over the loss he began a

Activism·Nature

Rare Cacti Conservation: The Hunt for Crested Saguaro

The Crested Saguaro Society is a group of volunteers that have been searching the Sonoran Desert since 2005 for the crested saguaro cactus. The group has found around 3,300 crested saguaros, which

February 14, 2023

Activism·Climate·Energy

Environmental Lawyers Take Shell Directors to Court Over Lack of Climate Action : Is Shell’s $40bn Profit at Risk?

The oil major, Shell, is being sued by environmental lawyers, ClientEarth, over the inadequacy of the company’s climate strategy. This lawsuit, the first of its kind, has been filed against 11 directors

Rahul Somvanshi

February 13, 2023

Activism·Waste·World

Brian May, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Margot Robbie Join Forces for The Small Steps Project

The Small Steps Project is making a big impact on the lives of children living on rubbish dumps worldwide. With the support of famous personalities like Brian May, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Margot

February 9, 2023

Activism·Fashion·World

Stripping Naked to Stop the Fur Industry: Animanaturalis’ Fight Against the Fur Industry

Animanaturalis activists took drastic action to highlight the cruelty of the fur industry, stripping naked on a busy street in Madrid and lying on the ground covered in fake blood. Holding a

Rahul Somvanshi

February 6, 2023

SOS from Roof Of The World: Magsaysay Award Winner Sonam Wangchuk’s Climate Fast In Ladakh

As Magsaysay Award winner Sonam Wangchuk expresses his worries over corporate expansion in Ladakh and undertakes a Climate Fast in an effort to draw attention to these issues, the Roof of

Tanishka Urade

February 2, 2023

Activism·World

Gen V Challenges Rishi Sunak to go Plant-Based for 1 Million Charitable Donation

An organization named Gen V wrote an open letter to Rishi Sunak, the current Prime Minister of the UK to ask him to adopt a plant-based diet for one month. In exchange,

Tista Karmakar

January 21, 2023

Activism·Fashion

Alicia Silverstone Strips Down for PETA’s Vegan Leather Campaign

Alicia Silverstone strips down for a billboard in New York City to promote the use of vegan leather alternatives as part of a campaign with the animal rights organization PETA. The 46-year-old

January 9, 2023

Major Venues Disrupted By Scientist Rebellion

Scientist Rebellion(SR) members are telling the truth about the climate crisis through protests and disruptions. They have planned the biggest action through different non-violence, civil-disobedience movements so far in multiple countries across

January 4, 2023