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Chipko Movement

The document discusses deforestation and the Chipko movement in India. Deforestation involves clearing forests for agriculture, wood, or urban development and impacts soil, wildlife habitats, and climate. The Chipko movement started in 1970s India as women hugged trees to prevent logging. Inspired by activist Sunder Lal Bahuguna, it spread nationwide and over a million trees have been saved from cutting through non-violent protest and replanting efforts.

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Chipko Movement

The document discusses deforestation and the Chipko movement in India. Deforestation involves clearing forests for agriculture, wood, or urban development and impacts soil, wildlife habitats, and climate. The Chipko movement started in 1970s India as women hugged trees to prevent logging. Inspired by activist Sunder Lal Bahuguna, it spread nationwide and over a million trees have been saved from cutting through non-violent protest and replanting efforts.

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O N T

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INTRODUCTION
DEFORESTATION:
Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal
of a forest or stand of trees where the
land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.[2]
Examples of deforestation include conversion of
forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use. The
most concentrated deforestation occurs in
tropical rainforests.

WHY:
Crop cultivation
For wood paper, furniture, raliway sleepers..etc
IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION:
Soil Erosion
Loss of habitat for local fauna (in
that area)
Interferes with natural cycles like
the water cycle and oxygen cycle,
hence affects the monsoon pattern
Global Warming
CHIPKO MOVEMENT
What is Chipko Movt. :

Chipko means tree hugging or


embrace as people hugged the
trees, hence ,stopped the felling of
trees.
The movement is best known for its
tactic of hugging trees to prevent
them from being cut down and to
prevent commercial timber
harvesting
ORIGIN
It came in to existence in
Gopleshwar,District Chamoli in Uttaranchal
in 1970s. The first significant Chipko
Movement took place in Reni village in
March,1974.
Locally called as Angwal
Gaura Devi, Head of the village Mahila
Mangal Dal - first one to hug trees from
being felled
Mobilized village women for the movtment
when company men marched to cut the
tress
SPREADING THE IDEA
Sunder Lal Bahuguna (environmentalist)
Enlightened the country and out world
about the movement, its success and
environmental impact.
Padmsbhushan winner
Others- Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Sarla
Bahen from Lakshmi Ashram
Women Groups
The Uttarakahand Sangharsh Vahini
(USV)
ACHIVEMENTS
The movt. Has spread to manny
states in the country
It stopped felling of trees in the
Western Ghats and the Vindhyas
More than 1,00,000 trees have been
saved from excavation
By 1981, over a million trees had
been planted through their efforts

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