DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ‘Chipko movement’ or ‘Chipko Andolan’ started in Reni village in the Chamoli district of the Garhwal region, then a part of the state of Uttar Pradesh . It is currently located in Uttarakhand.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was then that environmentalist and Gandhian social activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of the cooperative organisation Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh, led the first Chipko movement near the village of Mandal in 1973.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chipko movement originated from an incident in a remote village called Reni in Garhwal, high-up in the Himalayas during the early 1970s. It was a movement against the felling of trees (deforestation). Sunderlal Bahuguna an environmentalist was the driving force behind the legendary Chipko movement.