OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in Uttarakhand (then a part of Uttar Pradesh) from spontaneous action by villagers to save trees from being cut down by forest contractors.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chipko Movement or Andolan was the result of a grassroots level effort to end all the alienation of people from their forests. The movement originated from an incident in a remote village called Reni in Garhwal, high up in the Himalayas during the early 1970s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chipko movement, also called Chipko andolan, nonviolent social and ecological movement by rural villagers, particularly women, in India in the 1970s, aimed at protecting trees and forests slated for government-backed logging.