Dharmic Ecology

In recent years, major climate summits have seen growing frustration from frontline communities who bear the real cost of ecological destruction. Indigenous activists across the world now openly challenge world leaders for negotiating the planet’s survival without those who protect its last living ecosystems. This is not mere activism — it is a civilizational warning. A growing [...]

While on a night drive, two lions were spotted right close to a Hindu Goddess Temple in Gir National Park, Gujarat India. Experiencing these kings of the jungle even from a distance in their devotion to the sacred temple to the Goddess is truly divine. A reflection of the essence of Hinduism, fusing the beauty [...]

Well, Hinduism does respect animals and Mother Earth, something hardly any temples teach, as most running these temples don’t even know the ABC of Hinduism; otherwise, most Hindus would be at the forefront protecting nature rather than just chucking plastic and other waste in Ma Ganga. We have seen some pseudo Hindus angrily reacting to [...]

Hinduism has always encouraged respect for Mother Nature and to protect it but we come across fools like this who should be condemned by all Hindus while encouraging all Hindu temples and organisations to preach to the masses to protect nature especially even Hindu holy rivers and places are polluted by Hindus themselves .You often [...]

In this video, Professor Vamsee Juluri talks with author and International Studies professor Hindol Sengupta about the importance of indigenous perspectives of nature and ecological balance in the wake of the recent California fires. He points out how social media feeds have fragmented our attention and understanding of important issues and how different political camps [...]

About 100 KM away from Raipur, exists a temple of Mata Chandi which is besieged by dense forest. What makes this temple special is that, every evening, when Aarati is over, Bears from the forest visit & many people offer prasad to these wild bears Temple is situated in village Ghunchapali just 6-7km. from Bagbahara [...]

A three-eyed calf has been rehomed in Leicester and renamed after a Hindu god after an animal sanctuary bought the animal, believed to be ‘special’, from a Welsh farmer. The unusual-looking calf made headlines in May after a vet who was testing animals on the North Wales farm came across the animal. Reports of the [...]

Today the world faces existential threat from two sides: global conflict and ecological collapse. We are heading into double extinctions, of culture and nature. These twin interlocking violations are centuries long processes with a common history of settler-colonialism, neo-colonialism and industrial capitalism[i]. Settler colonialism is, as Patrick Wolfe (2006) stated, a “logic of elimination”. It [...]

As Prithvi Mata - Bhumi devi - Mother Earth is sacred to Hindus so some HHR members have been present at the ongoing Extinction Rebellion to save Mother Earth. Unfortunately no other Hindus groups were present. [...]

One of the most renowned environmentalists of Punjab, the man who has been actively creating awareness among people regarding environment protection, the ECO Baba, — Balbir Singh Seechewal is the new talk of the town as his efforts have made the sacred Kale Bein river lively again. 160 km long Kale Bein river is a [...]