chipko movement case atudy
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Explanation:
chip jobs movement case study can come class 10. in final exam
Explanation:
Chipko is a movement primarily begun and supported by local women in the hills of Uttarakhand
and Garhwal, where the women have had to bear the brunt of deforestation. They have not only
realised that their fuelwood and fodder resources have receded away from their ‘resource use
areas’ around their settlements due to commercial timber extraction,but that this has led to
serious floods and loss of precious soil.
Chipko activists have made long padyatras across the Himalayas protesting against deforestation.
The movement has been highly successful and has been primarily supported by empowering
local women’s groups who are the most seriously affected segment of society by deforestation.
The movement has proved to the world that the forests of the hills are the life support systems of
local communities of immense value in terms of local produce that is essential for the survival of
local people and that the forest has less quantifiable but even more important ecological services
such as soil conservation and the maintenance of the natural water regime of the whole region.
The ability of local women to band themselves together in the foothills of the Himalayas goes
back to the pre Independence days when women such as Miraben, a disciple of Gandhiji, moved
to this region and understood that it was the deforestation that led to floods and devastation of
villages in the valleys and in the Gangetic plains below. They also appreciated that substitutions
of oak and other broadleaved forests of the Himalayas by planting fast growing pine for timber
and resin was an ecological and social disaster which reduced the forest resources used by
traditional hill communities.