The Chipko movement

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• The Chipko movement

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What was the movement about?

• In the 1970s, throughout India people
  protested against the
• cutting of trees. The name of the
  movement comes from the
• word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged
  the trees, and
• prevented the contractors from cutting
  them.

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• The first Chipko action took place
  spontaneously in April 1973 in the village of
  Mandal in the Upper Alakananda valley and over
  the next five years spread to many districts of
  the Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh.

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• It was sparked off when the
• government decided to give a
• plot of the forest area to a
• sports good company. This
• angered the villagers.

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• The women of the area
• went into the forest
• and formed a circle
• around the trees, preventing
• the contractors from
• cutting them down.

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• Since then, many
• women in villages
• across the country
• have banned the
• cutting of trees.

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• They coined the slogan,
• What do the forests bear?
• Soil, water, pure air.

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• The success of the
• Chipko movement in the
• hills saved thousands of
• trees from being felled.

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