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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 Chipko movement was a group action in India with the goal of saving trees. This is mainly done through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being cut. It was also known as Chipko Andolan. ... (Clear cutting is a type of logging where all trees in an area are cut down).
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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
Chipko movement
Inspired by Gandhian principles of nonviolence, Chipko protesters embracing a tree to prevent its felling in rural India.
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Chipko movement
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DATE
1973 - c. 2004
LOCATION
Bhagirathi River
Himalayas
India
Uttar Pradesh
CONTEXT
Mahatma Gandhi
Satyagraha
RELATED TOPICS
Environmentalism