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Appiko movement, popularly known as South India’s Chipko movement, was started in 1983 to protect the Kalsa forests in Karnataka. Read more about the objectives, background, effects of the Appiko movement.
May 26, 2024 · Appiko Movement or Appiko Andalan is the environmental movement that originated in the District of Karnataka Uttara Kannada of western ghats in 1983. The Southern version of the Chipko Movement was started in the Garhwal Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (previously Uttar Pradesh) in 1973.
Sep 6, 2023 · The Appiko Movement was an Indian environmental movement that began in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka in the Western Ghats in 1983. The Appiko movement was a southern version of the Chipko movement, which began in the Garhwal Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) in 1973.
Mar 1, 2010 · The Appiko Movement is trying to save the Western Ghats by spreading its roots all over southern India. The movement's objectives can be classified into three major areas. First, the Appiko Movement is struggling to save the remaining tropical forests in the Western Ghats.
Mar 3, 2023 · The Appiko Movement is a grassroots campaign in India that revived Gandhian principles of foot marches protest and a balance between man and nature.
May 12, 2024 · Thanks to Appiko, the people’s movement for saving forests started in 1983, and several forests still exist. A 15-minute walk through a village like Gubbigadde (where people were enthusiastic participants in the Appiko Movement) gives a fair idea of the importance of forests in the lives of the villagers.
Mar 26, 2024 · Fifty years ago, a group of women from the villages of the Western Himalayas sparked Chipko, a green movement that remains relevant in the age of climate change.
The Appiko campaign succeeded in changing government policy to ban the felling of green trees in their state. Since corporations continued to destroy large areas of the forest elsewhere, the Appiko movement has spread across India and new campaigns fighting for change continue to this day.
Oct 12, 2021 · Appiko Movement. Children, men and women of Salkani “hugged the trees” in Kalase forest, in September 1983. (The regional word for “hugging” in Kannada is appiko.) The Appiko Andolan brought new awareness all over the parts of southern India.
May 2, 2022 · On September 8, 1983, all the villagers gathered at Salkhani and marched into the forests in the pouring rain marking the beginning of the Appiko chaluvali. They protested the felling by hugging the trees and not allowing the woodcutters to cut them.
