After Chipko the first ever funeral march of fallen trees organised in Dehradun

After the Chipko Andolan of 1974-75 led by legendary Gaura Devi who and several other women embraced trees to desist the forest contractors from cutting the trees to save our green forests on wide scale, Dehradun has now set an example by carrying out the SHAV YATRA of fallen trees ,( brutally cut trees) for widening roads and building skyscrapers cumulatively led by SDC founder Anoop Nautiyal and several others , the other day. Dressed in white, hundreds of enlightened citizens of Dehradun , young and old, males and females marched holding the cutted tree stems and heavy branches in their hands denouncing the powers that be for massively cutting trees making Dehradun treeless which are our lungs giving lives to entire humanity. The funeral procession for fallen trees in #Dehradun this past Sunday, March 30 was widely amplified by the media. Dressed in white, many gathered & participated in the funeral mourning the thousands of trees that have been felled in the #DoonValley & #Uttarakhand for the so called “development” in recent years. Mourners carried a bier made of dead branches from the “tree graveyard” next to the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in the outskirts of the city. Walking towards the Secretariat; the mood was sombre & crestfallen. Participants expressed sorrow & shared their concerns while speaking at the closure of the funeral program. The young spoke passionately & were most concerned; staring at an uncertain “green less future” in the midst of the dark clouds of “climate crisis & global/local warming” confronting us all. There was also resolve & hope that more citizens would join the good fight; securing a safer present & future for themselves & for future generations said Anoop Nautiyal a renowned social activist and environmentalist of Uttarakhand.