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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]
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May 21, 2021 · Getty Images. Women joined the Chipko movement in large numbers. A devastating flood in Uttarakhand in 1970 had come as a rude awakening for villagers. They woke up to the "tenuous links...
Aug 21, 2021 · FROM 1973 to 1979, the mountain regions of what was then Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand) witnessed several agitations to save forests from the axe. These agitations gained fame as the Chipko...
May 22, 2021 · Recently, Sunderlal Bahuguna, the Gandhian who was the driving force behind the Chipko movement died due to Covid-19. Key Points. Chipko Movement: It was a non-violent agitation which originated in Uttar Pradesh’s Chamoli district (now Uttarakhand) in 1973.
Nov 30, 2022 · Fifty years after the birth of India’s most famous environmental movement, climate disasters and restrictions on forest access are forcing residents of Raini village in Uttarakhand to leave the land where Chipko started
Aug 14, 2022 · The women embraced the trees and prevented them from being cut. The action started what has become famous as the Chipko movement. The forests of the area, which is now in Uttarakhand, had...
Mar 26, 2018 · The Chipko movement can essentially be called a women's movement. Women, being solely in charge of cultivation, livestock and children, lost all they had because of floods and landslides, caused due to rise in deforestation in the face of urbanisation.
