Towards a critical ecological ontology: literacy, sustainability, and fostering environmental education through the Indian green informational picturebook

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Figure 1. The Nature in Culture Matrix (Nature in Children’s Literature and Culture n.p).

Figure 2. Dichi with her dholak and her hanging from the branches of the ash tree (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 3. Dichi is sitting on ‘her’ ash tree (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 4. The marking of the chir, pine, deodar, and ash trees for auction (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 5. Dichi and other children are shouting their slogans (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 6. Dichi with her favourite ash tree (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 7. Uncle with the children and other village women (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 8. Collective solidarity and victory (Manokaran 2015).

Figure 9. Chipko activists in the Himalayas embrace the tree (Singh 1994, Photograph. Sepia Eye).

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