what features of the chipko movement does the auther highlight?
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The Chipko movement started in Garhwal region of present Uttarakhand in 1870s. Women and men in this region came together to protest against the indiscriminate felling of trees by the contractors. They were opposed to the use of forests for commercial gains. Gradually, the protest turned into a movement.
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Chipko movement was a mass movement against deforestation that was started in the early 1970 in the gharwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand.
the participant in the movement practiced The Gandhian methods of Satyagraha and and non violent resistant through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being failed.
the landmark event in this struggle took place on 26 March 1974 when a group of present women in Reni village in the the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand successfully resisted the feeling of trees.
by the 1980 the movement had spread throughout India this led to the formulation of people sensitive forest policies which put a stop to the open feeling of trees