Female Vigilante Group Has Been Defending This Indian Forest for 20 Years

A group of 75 female volunteers from India’s Odisha state has spent every day of the last 20 years patrolling a 75-hectare forest to protect it from woodcutters and timber smugglers. In 1999, the eastern state of Odisha was ravaged by a supercyclone. People lost their homes, their crops and had to go without food […]