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The Chipko movement ( Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the government's policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging, wrapping their arms around trees so that they could not be felled. [1]
Jun 17, 2024 · Chipko movement, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging.
May 28, 2024 · Chipko Movement also known as the Chipko Andolan, started in 1973. Read all about 5o Years of Chipko movement, Causes, Leaders, Impact, and Facts for UPSC Exam.
May 29, 2020 · Chipko movement was basically a forest conservation movement started against unquestionable rights of govt. agencies to order the felling of trees. The word chipko literally means “hugging” the trees to save them from cutting.
May 22, 2021 · Sunderlal Bahuguna (1927-2021): Initiated the chipko movement to guard the trees on the Himalayan slopes. Known for coining the Chipko slogan ‘ecology is permanent economy’. After the Chipko movement in the 1970s, he gave the message across the globe that ecology and ecosystem are more important.
Mar 26, 2018 · The Chipko movement can essentially be called a women’s movement. Women, being solely in charge of cultivation, livestock and children, suffered the most due to floods and landslides, caused due to rise in deforestation in the face of urbanisation.
May 1, 1986 · The traditional Indian strategy of resolving conflict by non-cooperation, the satyagraha, has been revived in the Chipko, or Embrace Tree, movement to protect forests from commercial felling.
Mar 26, 2024 · The Chipko movement gave rise to India’s Forest Conservation Act of 1980, the express aim of which is to conserve woodlands. A few years later, a new federal environment ministry...
Mar 27, 2019 · The Chipko movement took place in the Garahwal Himalayas, a region with dense forests that had protected it from invasion prior to British colonial rule. Tewari writes that the area had a strong cultural tradition of reverence for nature, with religious rituals devoted to trees, rivers, mountains, and local village gods.
Apr 18, 2022 · The Chipko Movement adhered to strictly nonviolent protest tactics, similar to many other resistance movements that have occurred on the Indian subcontinent. Chipko has resulted in decade-long tree-felling bans in numerous forests in the Himalayas, protecting the people and resources of rural India.
