FORESTRY
FOREST PROTECTION
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Chipko protest occurred near the village of Mandal in the upper Alaknanda valley in April 1973.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gaura Devi led 27 of the village women to the site and confronted the loggers. When all talking failed, and the loggers started to shout and abuse the women, threatening them with guns, the women resorted to hugging the trees to stop them from being felled.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Chipko movement began in two or three villages of Uttarakhand on refusal of permission to villages to fell ash trees for making agricultural tools and allotted the same land to sports manufacturers for commercial uses. 2. The villagers protested against the practices of logging to be permitted by government.