MeraPahad Community Of Uttarakhand Lovers

Dosto,

With immense pleasure, we are sharing this good news with that "Himalayan Chipko Foundation wins International Green Apple Award". Please go through the News from Press Release of the Society:
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JP Dabral of Himalayan Chipko Foundation has been notified that his organization has won the International Green Apple Environment Award. The award will be presented to them at the Green Apple Awards at the House of Commons in London on 15th. November, 2010. The award is being given to Himalayan Chipko Foundation for its exposure of the Hak Hakook scam in Uttarakhand in which thousands of trees were cut in the pretext of providing wood to the villagers whereas all the wood was sold by the timber mafia in the black market.

Himalayan Chipko Foundatin has also been invited to International Green Heroes, an elite group of environmental achievers who use their experience to help thousands of others – and the environment – around the world.

The Green Apple awards began in 1994 and attracted more than 500 nominations this year. Himalayan Chipko Foundation was selected as the winner after a thorough international selection process.

The International Green Apple Awards are organized by The Green Organisation , an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognizing, rewarding and promoting environmental best practices around the world.
 

JP Dabral
President
Himalayan Chipko Foundation
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Regards,

M S Mehta
Phone : 9868277171

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If you come to know of any illegal felling of trees in Uttarakhand please do let me know. There is such a ruckus in  Forest Department in which the IFS officers are neck deep steeped in corruption that if we the people of Uttarakhand do not fight back we will have destroyed our environment. What we have achieved is only because we have received information from people in Uttarakhand and then developed the story so that we are able to file PILs in Supreme Court of India.
1. Forest property is being destroyed. Trees are being cut and sold in the black market.
2. Wildlife poaching is still a big issue. Where have all our wildlife disappeared. You hardly see tigers in Uttarakhand. Elephants are dying at an alarming rate. Otters and riverine wildlife will get effected if every inch of the rivers in Uttarakhand are going to be idiotically exploited for power.
3. Plantations is a big scam. If the total number of trees that have been planted since the last 20 years is taken into consideration then the forest cover of Uttarakhand should have doubled. But we only see a proliferation of pine trees. Our oak forest and mixed forests are disappearing.
4. Forest land is being passed over to private bodies surreptitiously.
I can keep on writing about how the IFS are destroying our environment and forests. Their misdeeds are so alarming that we have to voice our concerns and ensure that the guilty are punished.
A friend once said," The only thing for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing".
Through this message to you I appeal to all of you to fight back to save the forests and environment of Uttarakhand. Where aver you need our help please do let me know.
And once again for your greetings for our winning the International Green Apple award. It actually is dedicated to all those civil minded people of Uttarakhand who helped us to unearth the ill deeds of the IFS in Uttarakhand.
Regards,
JP Dabral