Jadav Payeng

single-handedly managed to grow a forest across 1,360 acres in more than 40 years

‘Forest man of India’

Jamuna Tudu

forest conservation in Jharkhand; managed to save 50 hectares of forest

‘The Tarzan Lady of India’

Amrita Devi Bishnoi

 led Bishnoi community to save the trees in 1730.

‘India’s First Environmentalist.’ 

Sunderlal Bahuguna

Widely known for leading the Chipko movement & the anti-Tehri dam movement in the 1990s.

Medha Patkar

Led and organized the Narmada Bachao Andolan in 1985 at the age of 31

By Nayanika Phukan