Chipko movement
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The Chipko movement is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the government's policies on deforestation, protesters in the 1970s engaged in tree hugging, wrapping
Participants of the first all-woman Chipko action at Reni village in 1974, reassembled thirty years later in 2004
Chandi Prasad Bhatt one of the key leaders of the movement.
A Chipko protester at a development project in Pune, 2023
Sunderlal Bahuguna
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Sunderlal Bahuguna was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forest
Chipko movement
…for fifteen years in 1980 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, until the green cover was fully restored. One of the prominent Chipko leaders, Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna, took a 5,000 kilometre (3000 mile) trans-Himalaya foot march in 1981–83, spreading the Chipko message to a far greater area. Gradually, women set up…
A protest message against Tehri dam, which was steered by Sundarlal Bahuguna for years. It says "We don't want the dam. The dam is the mountain's destruction."
Sundarlal Bahuguna interacting with students of LB & SBS College, Sagar Shimoga
The President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting Padma Vibhushan Award to Sunderlal Bahuguna at the Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 14 April 2009