[ENGLISH 10] The Chipko Movement

Chipko

"embrace"

Dasoli Gram Swarajya Sangh

DGSS

Chipko Movement

In the 1970s, an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India

Ecology is permanent economy

Mr. Sunderial Bahugana's slogan

non-governmental organization

NGO

many districts of the Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh

Where in the next five years did the Chipko movement spread to?

Mr. Sunderial Bahugana

a Ghandian activist and philosopher whose appeal to Mrs. Indira Gandhi resulted in green-felling ban

Chandi Prasad Bhatt

an activist who led the women of the forest area in the Alakananda Valley; went into the forest and formed a circle around the trees preventing the men from cutting them down

1980

during this year, Chipko portests in Uttar Pradesh achieved a major victory— 15-year ban on green felling in the Himalayan forests as ordered by Mrs. Indira Gandhi; in addition, the movement has stopped felling in the Western Ghats and the Vindhyas

Maharaja (King) of Jodhpur

he ordered the felling of trees that Devi's group protected; after the incident, he gave a strong royal decree preventing the cutting of trees in all Bishnoi villages

Chandi Prasad Bhatt

is another leader of the Chipko movement; encouraged the development of local industries based on the conservation and sustainable use of forest wealth for local benefit

Amrita Devi

led a large group of 84 villages; laif down their lives in an effort to protect the trees from being felled

Bishnoi Community of Rajasthan

started the original "Chipko Movement", 260 years back in the early part of the 18th century

Mr. Ghanasyam Raturi

the Chipko poet; his song echo throughout the Himalayas of Uttar Pradesh; wrote a poem describing the method of embracing trees to save them from felling

April 1973

when the 'first Chipko action' took place spontaneously

Village of Mandal in the upper Alakananda Valley

where the 'first Chipko action' took place spontaneously