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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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Chipko Movement is a non-violent resistance aiming to protect India’s forests. The movement began in the 1970s in response to the increasing destruction of forests for commerce and industry.
Jun 28, 2024 · By the 1980s, the women’s peaceful resistance birthed the first ecofeminist movement of its kind that became known across India as the Chipko Andolan – or Chipko movement. Chipko is Hindi for “to cling” or “to hug”.
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...
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.
