Question

Difference between appiko and chipko movement

Answer 1

This movement started in Gubbi Gadde, a small village near Sirsi in the (north) Uttara Kannada district, has forced the forest department to change the forest policy on felling of trees. Besides affecting the forest policy, it also spread to other parts and saved forests. On Sep.8, 1983, Pandurang Hegde, the fiery activist, started the Appiko (to hug) movement. He derived inspiration from Sunderlal Bahugana's Chipko movement in Uttar Pradesh, in which villagers used to hug trees to save them from being felled by the State, which then had no laws against felling of timber inside protected areas. Appiko movement was started against monoculture (the agricultural practice of producing or growing one single crop over a wide area) in the western ghat Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan refers to a forest conservation movement. Chipko type movement dates back to 1730 AD when in khejarli village of Rajasthan, 363 people sacrificed their lives to save khejri trees. In modern india it began in 1973 and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world it created a precedent for starting of nonviolent protest in India,[1] and its success meant that the world immediately took notice of this non violent movement, which was to inspire in time many such eco-groups by helping to slow down the rapid deforestation

Answer 2

The following are the differences between the Apiko and the Chipko Movement:

1. Chipko Movement was started in the year 1973 while the Apiko   Movement started in 1983.

2. The Chipko Movement took place in the Indian state of Uttarakhand while the main centre of the Apiko Movement was  Uttara Kannada and Shimoga divisions of Karnataka State.

3. The main aim of the Chipko Movement was to preserve the trees on the Himalayan range from the tomahawks of contractors, whereas, the main objective of the Apiko Movement was to protect forests against the felling and commercialization of genetic forest and the destruction of traditional livelihood.