The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan (literally "to stick" in Hindi) was a socio-ecological movement which involved the hugging of trees by villagers to protect them from being felled by unscrupulous timber merchants in cahoots with the Forest Department. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26, 1974, when a group of female peasants in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department, and inspired hundreds of such grassroot level actions, throughout India.
This tiger, too, seems to be aware of the importance of trees and of how its own future is linked with that of forests.
I could have cropped this more and put more emphasis on the tiger, but wanted to show the bamboo and sal forest habitat in this part of India. Further, this is only a cub, probably 11 months old, and it has more than a year before it develops adult proportions. So, I wanted to show its smaller size.
Location: Bandhavgarh NP, Madhya Pradesh, India
Date: April 2010
Equip: Canon 50D, Canon 70-200 f2.8 at 155
Specs: ISO 400, f8, 1/250s, hand-held from an open jeep
Thank you for taking the time out to look, and for your comments/critiques.






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