Chipko Movement facts for kids

The Chipko movement was a group action in India with the goal of saving trees. This is mainly done through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being cut. It was also known as Chipko Andolan. Those who were part of it used nonviolent protests. The Chipko movement began in the early 1970s in Uttarakhand. It then spread to Uttar Pradesh. By the 1980s it had spread across most of India.

The Chipko movement lead to a change in policies to stop the clear cutting of trees in some regions. (Clear cutting is a type of logging where all trees in an area are cut down).

Chipko movement was stared by sunderlal Bahugana.

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  A scene of Chipko Movement, one of the strongest movements to conserve forests in India.

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  Participants of the first all-woman Chipko action at Reni village in 1974, reassembled thirty years later

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In Spanish: Chipko para niños