The Chipko Movement Protects India’s Forests
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Civil Disobedience, Nonviolence, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: Asian History
- Geographical Location: South Asia, India
- Date: March 27, 1973
Article abstract: Under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt, villagers from Gopeshwar, a small village in northern India, initiated Chipko, a nonviolent movement against logging and deforestation.
Summary of Event
In early 1973, the Simon Company of Allahabad, India, a sporting-goods manufacturer, was granted permission by India’s forestry department to fell ash trees in the Mandal forest, located about eight miles from the small sub-Himalayan village of Gopeshwar in Uttarakhand, a region in northern Uttar Pradesh. The light but sturdy ashwood is...
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