Safeena Wani is a journalist based in Kashmir and Ladakh with nine years of experience in multimedia. She is Rukhmabai Fellow - 2024, Earth Journalism Network Fellow - 2025 and Just Transition Research Centre grantee - 2025. She has reported on conflict, politics, gender, health, climate change, migration and border issues. Her work has appeared in several national and international platforms like Mongabay, Waging Non-violence, SCMP, The New Humanitarian, The Federal, India Spend, Newslaundry, Boomlive and others.
Solar power projects are being planned across Ladakh. As the Union government maintains ambiguity over who controls the land in the region, people say it is encroaching on their land rights.