Chipko Movement. Year 1973

Beginning 1973 and over the course of five years the Chipko Movement spread rapidly in neighboring villages and in many districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Chipko movement. year 1973. Gaura Devis Chipko movement in Uttar Pradeshs Mandal village. Chipko Andolan Movement which was started in 1973 in Garhwal Himalayas Gopeshwar near Alaknanda river was for the first time initiated by Chapter Name CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. The villagers hug the trees saving them by interposing their bodies between them and the contractors axes.

The april 1973 chipko movement 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 name of the movement comes from a word meaning embrace. Chipko means embrace in english.

The Chipko movement was a nonviolent movement of 1973 aimed at protecting and preserving trees but perhaps firstly to mobilize women to protect forests change attitudes and recall their own positions in society. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh led the first Chipko movement near the village of Mandal in 1973. Inspired by Gandhian methods the first non-violent demonstration took place spontaneously in the Himalayan region in 1973.

Chipko movement started in 1973 spontaneously in Uttar Pradesh in an effort to save trees and forests from felling by forest contractorsOne of Sunderlal Ba. This was the strongest form of resistance against rampant cutting of trees where people asserted their rights over. It was a non-violent movement initiated by the women in Uttar Pradeshs Chamoli district now is a part of Uttarakhand India for the conservation of forests to maintain ecological balance in the environment.

When their appeals were denied Bhatt led a group of villagers into the forest and embraced the trees to prevent logging. First Chipko action- March 1974 in Reni village. INTRODUCTION Chipko means tree hugging as the villagers hugged the trees.

The chipko movement represents a milestone both globally and locally. Women and men standing around trees hugging them holding each others hands -- This was the scene in a village in Uttar Pradesh in 1973 now in Uttarakhand where the modern Chipko Movement took birth under the aegis of Sunderlal Bahuguna a noted Garhwali environmentalist. The Chipko Movement started as a way for rural communities to take back control over the use of forests.