'Bunched and moving livestock mimics nature as a means to heal the environment. Only livestock can reverse desertification' - Ecologist Allan Savory. 

Best way to save soil and save biodiversity is by planned grazing. Such grazing grasslands or gauchar lands sequester carbon, recharge aquifers and reverse desertification. Gauchar lands also boost village economy by making fodder, firewood etc available to the poor farmer. 

Rampant encroachments of gauchar lands needs to be reversed. It is now or never. 

Lord Krishna Himself was a cow herd, who showed how to keep the ecology thriving with the help of livestock. 

On Gopashtami day, Lord Krishna started grazing his cows. He refused to wear shoes during the process of grazing. This compassion for cows and oneness with nature, led the cows to turn rocks and hard surfaces into soft soil. 

Today, science says that it takes 500 to 1000 years to generate 1 inch of topsoil but this refers to slow weathering or rocks when nature is left to its own devices without animal-human interference. Instead of that, actively working to stimulate soil formation, through maintaining ground cover, increasing biological activity, imposing level of disturbance that add oxygen and moisture as done by moving livestock, can accelerate the process - up to more than an inch or more a year! 

Sign the petition to declare Gopashtami as the National Day of Livestock Grazing and demand release of Gauchar lands for our sustainable future.