What is the Chipko Movement?When ,where and by whom was it started?
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Answer to your question is as follows :
Answer to your question is as follows :
- The Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand, then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation.
- This movement incorporated Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
- Women were active participants in this movement