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The Chipko Movement

  • POSTED ON: 30 Mar, 2018
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  • POSTED BY: Chari Vijayaraghavan
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Recently, Google celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Chipko movement with a doodle. The Chipko movement refers to a forest conservation movement where people clung onto trees to prevent them from being cut. Chipko–type movements date back to 1730 AD when in the Khejarli village of Rajasthan, 363 Bishnois sacrificed their lives to save khejri trees. In modern India, it began in 1973 in Uttarakhand (then in Uttar Pradesh) and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. Take a look…

Chipko movement over the years - it created a precedent for starting of nonviolent protest in India.Participants of the first all-woman Chipko action at Reni village in 1974 on left jen wadas, reassembled thirty years later.The Tree Hugger Project by Wiktor Szostalo, a Polish sculptor, and artist Agnieszka Gradzik. One of the installations planned for India to commemorate the Chipko Women.

Its success meant that the world immediately took notice of this non-violent movement, which was to inspire in time many such eco-groups by helping to slow down the rapid deforestation, expose vested interests, increase ecological awareness, and demonstrate the viability of people power. Above all, it stirred up the existing civil society in India, which began to address the issues of tribal and marginalized people.

Source : Wikipedia