Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Chipko movement (Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging 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 their arms around trees so that they could not be felled.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) 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 forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri ...
This tendency of women activists to take the leading role in the environmentalism of the poor is manifested in examples such as the Chipko movement in India, the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, [4] and the opposition to the Agua Zarca Hydroelectrical Project in Honduras [27] and is embodied in persons such as Berta Cáceres, Lesbia Urquía ...
In India, the Chipko Movement of the 1970s — where villagers embraced trees to prevent their felling — is highlighted as a precursor to modern eco-warrior activism. In Australia , campaigns to protect the Great Barrier Reef and halt coal mining projects mobilized activists who use civil disobedience to spotlight environmental threats.
One of the first environmentalist movements led by women was the Chipko movement (women tree-huggers in India). Its name comes from a Hindi word meaning "to stick" (as in glue). After the Indian Government granted an order for sport equipments to a local company of Utrakhand, India, the Maharajah of Jodhpur wanted to build a new palace in ...
Chipko movement, an environmental movement in India; TreeHugger, a sustainability website; The Tree Hugger Project, an environmental art project
The "YIMBY" movement is a political effort to tackle the country's housing shortage by increasing the housing supply with strategies like changing zoning codes and other regulations that limit ...
The Khejarli Massacre was an inspiration for the 20th century environmentalist Chipko movement. [7] Several temples and a cenotaph in Khejarli commemorates the massacre, and the village is the site of an annual Bishnoi ceremony held in honour of the event. [6]