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Chipko Movement

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Chipko Movement

Indian grass-roots villagers' movement campaigning against the destruction of their forests. Its broad principles are nonviolent direct action, a commitment to the links between village life and an unplundered environment, and a respect for all living things.

The Chipko Movement originated in the Indian Himalayas during the 1970s but lives on in India and elsewhere, inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. The movement was named after the Hindi word for ‘to embrace’, from the villagers' original tactics of embracing trees to prevent them being felled.



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The Chipko Movement has not only protected trees in the local forest, but has spread to other parts of the country and forced a review of the country's forest policy (resulting in tree-cutting restrictions in the Himalayan region).
Half of the world is women: but empowerment--and environmental ... by Vartan, Starre / E
the chart on influence of the Chipko movement in South India describes conditions only in 1983; the chart on social forestry projects lists conditions only in 1981).
Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts over Natural ... by Anderson, Robert S. / Pacific Affairs
The women of the Chipko movement in India embrace the trunks even as loggers approach with their chainsaws.
Decade of the tree by Davis, Norah Deakin / American Forests
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