🌲 First campaign · Uttarakhand · Live before 2027

देव भूमि बचाओProtect Uttarakhand's Forests. Forever.

A citizen-funded movement to buy vulnerable forest land in Uttarakhand and place it under permanent legal protection — before it's lost to development. Every rupee tracked. Every acre accounted for.

One acre ≈ ₹3 lakh.* 300 people × ₹1,000 = a forest no one can ever cut.

Join the founding 1,000 — 10 seconds See the forests

Pre-launch · Donations open once the charitable trust & payment rails are verified · *illustrative hill-land estimate, final values published per parcel

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Forest projects
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Acres being protected
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Contributors
Why now

In 1973, villagers in Chamoli hugged the trees.
In 2027, we buy them.

The Chipko movement was born in Uttarakhand — ordinary hill people wrapping their arms around deodars to stop the axes. Fifty years on, the threat hasn't gone away; it has changed shape. Forest parcels near roads and towns are quietly bought, cleared and converted — a resort here, a plot scheme there. Once a forest is cut, no protest brings it back.

Hugging trees bought time. Owning them ends the argument. Land held by a conservation trust with a no-sale, no-development mandate is not a campaign — it's a full stop.

Hands on the bark of a deodar tree in a Himalayan forest
The model

Simple. Collective. Permanent.

Individually, saving a forest feels impossible. Together, it's just arithmetic. Small contributions pool into a fund large enough to buy land outright — and land that is owned by a conservation trust can never be cleared, sold, or built on.

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People donate

Contributions of any size — ₹100 or ₹1 lakh — go into a dedicated campaign fund.

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Funds are pooled

Each project shows a target purchase value and live funding progress, publicly.

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Land is purchased

The charitable trust buys the identified forest parcel. Sale deed published to all donors.

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Legally protected

Deed covenants + trust ownership lock the land against development, permanently.

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Conserved long-term

Local stewardship, boundary protection, and regular updates back to every contributor.

Campaign one · देव भूमि बचाओ

The forests we're moving to protect

Each project shows its location, land area, purchase value, amount raised and conservation objective — click through for the full picture of what your contribution protects.

⚠️ Demo mode: the parcels below are pilot profiles and every figure shown is test data for functionality review. Final sites, surveyed areas and verified purchase values are published before donations open — and real counters start at ₹0, in public.
Radical transparency

Follow every rupee, from donation to deed

Trust is the entire product. Every stage of every project is documented and published — you don't have to take our word for anything.

1 · Donation received

Instant receipt with your contribution logged against a specific project. Live public totals on every project page.

2 · Fund fully raised

Target hit → purchase process begins. Escrow-style holding until the sale executes; if a purchase falls through, funds roll to the next parcel (or are refunded — donor's choice).

3 · Land purchased

Registered sale deed, survey maps and GPS boundaries published to all contributors within 30 days of registration.

4 · Legal protection

Conservation covenants recorded; land held by the charitable trust with a no-sale, no-development mandate in its founding documents.

5 · Long-term conservation

Quarterly field updates with photos, local steward reports, and annual audited accounts — forever.

Our transparency commitments

  • Every sale deed & survey map published in full
  • Live funding counters — never edited, never inflated
  • GPS boundaries of every protected parcel, public
  • Annual independent audit, published
  • Quarterly photo & stewardship updates to donors
  • Admin costs capped & disclosed on every project
The larger vision

Citizens as the financial force behind India's forests

Dev Bhoomi Bachao is campaign one. The platform beneath it is built to scale — a permanent, community-funded mechanism for buying and protecting natural heritage across India.

Before the 2027 elections

Fully operational and live ahead of the Uttarakhand election period — building public awareness and participation around forest protection when the state is listening hardest.

Dev Bhoomi first

Uttarakhand is the land of the gods — and among India's most ecologically vulnerable states. Springs, corridors and old-growth stands are being lost parcel by parcel. We buy them back.

Then, all of India

Every campaign proves the model: pooled citizen funds → purchased land → permanent protection. Western Ghats, Northeast, Aravallis — the mechanism travels.

Campaign ledger

Updates — the public record

Every milestone, honestly logged as it happens. This ledger is the campaign's memory; nothing gets edited after the fact.

Where we are

The road to the first protected acre

You're early — that's the point. Here's exactly where the campaign stands, updated honestly as each step completes.

✅ Step 1 — Platform live

You're looking at it. The public home of Dev Bhoomi Bachao is up.

🔄 Step 2 — Charitable trust & 80G registration

In progress. The legal entity that will own and protect the land, with tax-deductible donations.

⏳ Step 3 — Payment rails verified

A dedicated, audited donation account — separate from everything else.

⏳ Step 4 — First parcels verified

Survey, title diligence and final purchase values published for the pilot sites.

⏳ Step 5 — Donations open

Counters go live at ₹0, in public, and the first acre gets bought.

The founding 1,000

Be one of the first thousand

The founding 1,000 are the contributors who were here before the first acre — named (with permission) on the permanent record of every parcel the movement protects. Leave your email to claim your place.

The honest fine print: we'll email you only when donations open and when the first parcel is bought. No spam, no sharing your address, unsubscribe anytime.