Aishwarya Mohanty is an independent journalist based in Bhubaneswar. She writes on gender, rural issues, social justice and environment. Previously, she worked with The Indian Express.
When men migrate for work, it is the women who work to conserve the mangroves of disaster-prone coastal Odisha to protect the fragile ecosystem from erosion. But they have no rights over these mangrove lands
Forests, water-bodies, flowers, tubers and bears have disappeared from the biodiversity rich villages of Koraput because of climate change. The women are trying to draft a map to understand the loss and plan ahead for conservation