Question

write detailed of Chipko Movement
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Answer 1

Chipko Movement -

The Chipko movement, also known as the Chipko andolan, was a nonviolent social and ecological movement in India in the 1970s by rural villagers, particularly women, aimed at saving trees and forests for government-backed logging. In 1973, the movement emerged in the Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) Himalayan area and spread rapidly across the Indian Himalayas. The Hindi word chipko means "to hug" or to cling to and represents the primary strategy of the demonstrators of embracing the trees to hinder the loggers.