The Bishnoi community's historical sacrifice in 1730 to save Khejri trees is hailed as an early environmental protest. Author Martin Goodman discussed their enduring environmental principles at the ...

Writer and conservationist Martin Goodman, in a session at the Jaipur Literature Festival, said that the Bishnoi community ...

Rajasthan, India – Jeetu Singh’s camel stands calm, munching the leaves of a Khejri tree in the Jaisalmer district of India’s desert state of Rajasthan. Her calf occasionally suckles on her ...

Such is their reverence towards the Khejri tree, also the state tree of Rajasthan, that Kiran said they don’t cut the tree “even when its roots grow into the water tank and pipes”.

Its construction needed lime, and for the lime they needed fire and to fuel the fire they needed trees. The men had come to chop down the khejri forest and haul it to the city to be burned.

Imprisoned gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has become a symbol for the Bishnoi community in their environmental protests against the felling of Khejri trees for solar power projects. The community has ...

India (Rajasthan): the bark of this tree was eaten during the severe famines of1899 and ... Rajasthan (western): Jant, Khejri. (Ripe pods): Khaka, Khokha, Sangri. Madhya Pradesh (Hindi dialect): Shami ...

Bikaner police are searching for youths who displayed posters of Lawrence Bishnoi during a protest organised by the Bishnoi Mahasabha against the felling of Khejri trees by solar companies.