The Chipko Movement

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The Chipko
Movement
WHat is the chipko
      Movement?
In the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them. 
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WHat is the chipko Movement?
The Chipko Movement, or sometimes called chipko andolan, was mainly a forest conservation movement but grew into a much larger, international enviromental contrast and created a guide for the protests that were happening in India at the time. This was one of the first eco movements to be happening at this time.
WHat is the chipko Movement?
Most of the leaders of the Chipko Movement were village women and men who strove to save their means of subsistence and their communities. Sunderlal Bahuguna, a renowned Gandhian, with a group of volunteers and women started the non-violent protest by clinging to the trees to save them from felling. 
WHat is the chipko Movement?
The first Chipko action took place spontaneously in April 1973 in the village of Mandal in the upper Alakananda valley, and over the next five years it spread too many districts of the Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh. It was sparked off by the government’s deci­sion to allot a plot of forest area in the Alakananda valley to a sports goods company.
WHat is the chipko Movement?
WHat is the chipko Movement?
This angered the villagers, because their demand to use wood for making agricultural tools had been denied earlier. With encouragement from a local NGO (Non-Governmental Organization), DGSS (Dasoli Gram Swarajya Sangh), the women of the area, under the leadership of an activist, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, went into the forest and formed a circle around the trees preventing men from cutting them down.
WHat is the chipko Movement?
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