Uttarakhand

The Raji community is a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) that lives in and around Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand’s Kumaon region. Historically, the Raji people have depended on the forest…

Corbett National Park, like many other forests across the country, is experiencing extreme water scarcity. The Bijrani, Jhirna, and Dhela regions of the park—where the perennial Ramganga river does not…

My name is Saddam and I belong to the Van Gujjar community in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand. We used to live in and around the forest and practised buffalo husbandry. Our…

In 2023, when the rains arrived a few weeks early and were heavier than usual, the water levels in the Ganga river swelled within a week—it usually takes a month…

An under-emphasised driver of human–wildlife conflict is the depredation of livestock owned by forest-fringe communities. Every year, 700–800 cows and buffaloes are preyed upon by large carnivores such as tigers…

The population of Satpuli, a small town by the banks of the river Nayar in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district, has nearly doubled in the last decade. People in Uttarakhand have…

Traditionally, the Van Gujjars in the areas around Uttarakhand’s Dehradun district live in the plains till around March. As a nomadic pastoralist community, they migrate in upland in the summer…

Homestays have been garnering attention for a while now. An immersive tourism experience, they allow visitors to live at the home of a local host for a fee. The Takula…