Growing ranks of youngsters are returning to Ladakh to contribute to a new form of progress.

"Conservation in community-protected grasslands succeeds because is tied to the livelihoods of the people,”

Villagers ceremonially put a fresh coat of mud on their walls start painting on them

Children and young people have extraordinary agency, intelligence, and the capacity to relentlessly question.

The Gond community has decided to bury instead of cremating their dead, with an aim to reduce the number of trees cut for funeral pyres.

The relationship between the herd and the shepherd is one of mutual dependency; the herd is the herders' family.

The irrigation technique is passed on from mother to daughter, from the time little girls start helping in the fields.

For Uttarakhand youth - a platform to engage mountain communities in ecological conservation

Women from the village made recharge pits, check dams, bunds and planted trees in the recharge zone of the spring