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    The Chipko Movement began in the 1970s in India as a form of non-violent resistance by villagers to protect their forests from commercial logging. The movement started spontaneously in 1973 when villagers in Uttar Pradesh hugged trees to prevent contractors from cutting them down, endangering the villagers' livelihoods and environment. Over the next few years, the movement spread across India as villagers organized to stop the destruction of forests. Major victories included a 15-year ban on logging in Uttar Pradesh's Himalayan forests in 1980. The movement was decentralized and led primarily by village women to save their means of subsistence and communities.

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    The Chipko Movement began in the 1970s in India as a form of non-violent resistance by villagers to protect their forests from commercial logging. The movement started spontaneously in 1973 when villagers in Uttar Pradesh hugged trees to prevent contractors from cutting them down, endangering the villagers' livelihoods and environment. Over the next few years, the movement spread across India as villagers organized to stop the destruction of forests. Major victories included a 15-year ban on logging in Uttar Pradesh's Himalayan forests in 1980. The movement was decentralized and led primarily by village women to save their means of subsistence and communities.

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    The Chipko Movement began in the 1970s in India as a form of non-violent resistance by villagers to protect their forests from commercial logging. The movement started spontaneously in 1973 when villagers in Uttar Pradesh hugged trees to prevent contractors from cutting them down, endangering the villagers' livelihoods and environment. Over the next few years, the movement spread across India as villagers organized to stop the destruction of forests. Major victories included a 15-year ban on logging in Uttar Pradesh's Himalayan forests in 1980. The movement was decentralized and led primarily by village women to save their means of subsistence and communities.

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    Chipko MOvement

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    The Chipko Movement began in the 1970s in India as a form of non-violent resistance by villagers to protect their forests from commercial logging. The movement started spontaneously in 1973 when villagers in Uttar Pradesh hugged trees to prevent contractors from cutting them down, endangering the villagers' livelihoods and environment. Over the next few years, the movement spread across India as villagers organized to stop the destruction of forests. Major victories included a 15-year ban on logging in Uttar Pradesh's Himalayan forests in 1980. The movement was decentralized and led primarily by village women to save their means of subsistence and communities.

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    The forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the

    country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food,
    fuel and fodder and because of their role in stabilising soil and water resources. As these forests
    have been increasingly felled for commerce and industry, Indian villagers have sought to protect
    their livelihoods through the Gandhian method of satyagraha non-violent resistence. In the 1970s
    and 1980s this resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and became
    organised and known as the Chipko Movement.

    The first Chipko action took place spontaneously in April 1973 and over the next five years
    spread to many districts of the Himalaya in Uttar Pradesh. The name of the movement comes
    from a word meaning 'embrace': the villagers hug the trees, saving them by interposing their
    bodies between them and the contractors' axes. The Chipko protests in Uttar Pradesh achieved a
    major victory in 1980 with a 15-year ban on green felling in the Himalayan forests of that state
    by order of India's then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Since then the movement has spread to
    Himachal Pradesh in the North, Kamataka in the South, Rajasthan in the West, Bihar in the East
    and to the Vindhyas in Central India. In addition to the 15-year ban in Uttar Pradesh, the
    movement has stopped clear felling in the Western Ghats and the Vindhyas and generated
    pressure for a natural resource policy which is more sensitive to people's needs and ecological
    requirements.

    The Chipko Movement is the result of hundreds of decentralised and locally autonomous
    initiatives. Its leaders and activists are primarily village women, acting to save their means of
    subsistence and their communities. Men are involved too, however, and some of these have
    given wider leadership to the movement. Prominent Chipko figures include: Sunderlal
    Bahuguna, a Gandhian activist and philosopher, whose appeal to Mrs. Gandhi results in the
    green-felling ban and whose 5,000 kilometre trans-Himalaya footmarch in 1981-83 was crucial
    in spreading the Chipko message. Bahuguna coined the Chipko slogan: 'ecology is permanent
    economy'.

    Chandi Prasad Bhatt, one of the earliest Chipko activists, who fostered locally-based industries
    based on the conservation and sustainable use of forest wealth for local benefit.

    Dhoom Singh Negi, who, with Bachni Devi and many village women, first saved trees by
    hugging them in the 'Chipko embrace'. They coined the slogan: 'What do the forests bear? soil,
    water and pure air'.

    Ghanasyam Raturi, the Chipko poet, whose songs echo throughout the Himalaya of Uttar
    Pradesh.

    Indu Tikekar, a doctor of philosophy, whose spiritual discourses throughout India on the ancient
    Sanskrit scriptures and on comparative religion have stressed the unity and oneness of life and
    put the Chipko Movement in this context.

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