DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sunderlal Bahuguna and his wife who spend their life as an environmentalist in educating the villagers to protest against the destruction of the forest. He was the leader and started the chipko movement for the conservation of forests in the Himalayas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The movement In 1964 environmentalist and Gandhian social activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt founded a cooperative organization, Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (later renamed Dasholi Gram Swarajya Mandal [DGSM]), to foster small industries for rural villagers, using local resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was a non-violent agitation which originated in Uttar Pradesh’s Chamoli district (now Uttarakhand) in 1973. The name of the movement ‘chipko’ comes from the word ‘embrace’, as the villagers hugged the trees and encircled them to prevent being hacked.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Chipko movement was started by Sunderlal Bahuguna in the Garhwal forests. The movement was aimed at stopping the felling of trees for commecial purposes.