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4 - EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW IN THE FOREST 10.

10. The earth's resources were made into raw materials and waste
generated, pollute the earth.
POINTS TO REMEMBER: 11. Nature is the best teacher it teaches us to share and save, the earth
university ‘Navadanya' trains people about ecology.
1. Vandana Shiva is a prominent environmental activist. In these passages,
12. India’s national poet Rabindranath Tagore started Shantiniketan to
she writes about how she came to realize about our environment. She
impart learning in natural surroundings. In his essay ‘Tapovan' he
joined the ‘Chipko Movement’ to protest against large scale
explains the importance of nature in a human's life.
deforestation in the Himalayan region.
13. . Forests teach us to live in harmony with nature.
2. Peasant women from the Himalayan region were also involved in
deforestation on the mountains that had led to landslides and floods,
water and food scarcity and also fire-wood scarcity.
3. They hugged trees as loggers try to cut them.
4. Vandana Shiva got her Ph.D. in 1973. Then she decided to join Chipko
Movement and did Padayatras to document deforestation and to
promote Chipko Movement.
5. During her involvement with Chipko, she learned about bio-diversity
and economy dependent on it, From the experience gained she started
'Navadanya Farm’ for demos and training. 630varieties of rice, 150
varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species are conserved here.
6. Ecuador adopted 'right to nature’ in its constitution and in April 21 U.N
General Assembly organized ‘harmony with nature’ as a part of earth
day celebrations.
7. In his report ‘Harmony with nature‟ UN General Secretary says that by
destroying nature, we have failed to recognize that humans are
inseparable from nature and by destroying nature, we destroy ourselves.
8. People from all over the world agitated against Apartheid and stopped
its practice.
9. The roots of exploitation of the earth is based in this idea of separation.

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