Chipko Movement. Year 1973 . This was one of the major environmental movement of india. Sundarlal bahuguna, gaura devi,sudesha bachni chandi prasad bhatt, govind singh rawat, dhoom singh negi, shamsher singh bisht and ghanasyam raturi.
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This was one of the major environmental movement of india. The villagers hugged the trees and thus saved them by putting their bodies in the way of the contractors’ axes. It was the strong uprising against the against those people, who were destroying the natural resources of the forests and disturbing the whole ecological balance.
According to the centre for science and environment, chipko began in 1973 in the remote hill town of gopeshwar.
Chipko andolan (movement) which was started in 1973 in garhwal`//`himalayas (gopeshwar) near alaknanda river was for the first time initiated by One of the strongest movements to conserve forests in india. The year 2018 marks the 45th anniversary of the chipko andolan (movement). The word ‘chipko’ means ‘embrace’, as the villagers hugged the trees that prevented the loggers from cutting them.
