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The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan is a movement that practised the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand,Then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation. The landmark event in this struggle took place on March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department. Their actions inspired hundreds of such actions at the grassroots level throughout the region. By the 1980s the movement had spread throughout India and led to formulation of people-sensitive forest policies, which put a stop to the open felling of trees in regions as far reaching as Vinddsfhyas and the Western Ghats.
| Standing up for trees: Women's role in the Chipko ... Standing up for trees: Women's role in the Chipko Movement www.fao.org/DOCREP/R0465E/R0465E03.HTM - Web |
| Chipko Heritage Chipko Heritage nandadevi.prayaga.org/?page_id=9 - Web |
| The Chipko movement and women The Chipko movement and women www.pucl.org/from-archives/Gender/chipko.htm - Web |
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