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explain Chipko movement​

Answer 1

Chipko movement was a non violent mobilising movement which took place in 1973. People actually started hugging trees when people used to come there and start chopping the trees.

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Answer 2

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Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, 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 movement originated in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) in 1973 and quickly spread throughout the Indian Himalayas. The Hindi word chipko means “to hug” or “to cling to” and reflects the demonstrators’ primary tactic of embracing the trees to impede the loggers.

Chipko movement

Inspired by Gandhian principles of nonviolence, Chipko protesters embracing a tree to prevent its felling in rural India.

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