Question

The Chipko movement is started by

(A) Engler (B) Sunderlal Bahuguna

(C) Medha Patkar (D) None of them​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Sunderlal Bahuguna started Chipko movement .

Answer 2

The Chipko movement was started by (b) Sunderlal Bahuguna.

(b) Sunderlal Bahuguna- correct option

• The Chipko movement was primarily an effort to protect forests from government agencies' unassailable authority to order the cutting of trees.
• A well-known Garhwali environmentalist and the father of the Chipko movement is Sunderlal Bahuguna.
• He has long advocated for the protection of Himalayan forests, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s and then as the leader of the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to the beginning of 2004.
• Hence, this option is correct.

(a) Engler- incorrect option

• Adolf Engler is a well known German botanist who created the Engler plant classification system.
• He had nothing to do with Chipko movement.
• Hence this option is incorrect.

(c) Medha Patekar- incorrect option

• Indian social activist Medha Patkar is well known for her work on a number of political and economic issues affecting farmers, Dalits, tribal people, labourers, and women.
• She is associated with the Narmada bachao andolan and not chipko movement.
• Hence this option is incorrect.

(d) None of them- incorrect option

• This option is incorrect as we already have option (b) as the correct choice.

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