Chipko Movement In India

Hundreds of activists on Saturday staged the 'Chalo Chipko' (Let's hug trees) agitation in the Mutha riverbed in Pune city to protest the felling of trees for the ambitious Pune River Front Development (RFD) project.

Sunderlal Bahuguna, one of India's best-known environmentalist and a pioneer of the Chipko Movement against the cutting of trees, today died of COVID-19 in Rishikesh.

The glacial burst near Chamoli district's Raini village, the cradle of the Chipko movement, should serve as a wake-up call to stop the rampage on the Himalayan ecological system in the name of development, said Magsaysay awardee Chandi Prasad Bhatt on Monday.

A 400-year-old banyan tree that was in the centre of a protest against a highway project in Maharashtra's Sangli district will remain unharmed, Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray announced in a tweet today.

Chipko movement: During the 1970s, when reckless cutting of trees started affecting people's livelihoods, the villagers from Uttarakhand's Chamoli started hugging trees to prevent them from cutting.

The Chipko movement was a turning point in forest conservation efforts in India. Chipko, signifying 'embrace or hug', was the strategy of hundreds of villagers -mostly women- in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, to save the forest cover on the Garhwal Himalyas. Reckless felling of trees on the hill slopes was having a devastating effect on the livel...

Uttarakhand has a long history of engagement of women in public movements, right from the Chipko movement to protect trees by hugging them in the seventies to the struggle for a separate state two decades later. But women haven't done as well when it comes to holding elected offices. Only five women have been elected to the state assembly in the j...

Sixty five RTI applications and still going strong. NDTV meets an angry citizen from Mumbai who's activism has done his city a world of good.

Be it the campaign against liquor, the Chipko movement or the fight for a separate state -- Uttarakhand's women have always led for the front.

Hundreds of activists on Saturday staged the 'Chalo Chipko' (Let's hug trees) agitation in the Mutha riverbed in Pune city to protest the felling of trees for the ambitious Pune River Front Development (RFD) project.

Sunderlal Bahuguna, one of India's best-known environmentalist and a pioneer of the Chipko Movement against the cutting of trees, today died of COVID-19 in Rishikesh.

The glacial burst near Chamoli district's Raini village, the cradle of the Chipko movement, should serve as a wake-up call to stop the rampage on the Himalayan ecological system in the name of development, said Magsaysay awardee Chandi Prasad Bhatt on Monday.

A 400-year-old banyan tree that was in the centre of a protest against a highway project in Maharashtra's Sangli district will remain unharmed, Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray announced in a tweet today.

Chipko movement: During the 1970s, when reckless cutting of trees started affecting people's livelihoods, the villagers from Uttarakhand's Chamoli started hugging trees to prevent them from cutting.

The Chipko movement was a turning point in forest conservation efforts in India. Chipko, signifying 'embrace or hug', was the strategy of hundreds of villagers -mostly women- in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, to save the forest cover on the Garhwal Himalyas. Reckless felling of trees on the hill slopes was having a devastating effect on the livel...

Uttarakhand has a long history of engagement of women in public movements, right from the Chipko movement to protect trees by hugging them in the seventies to the struggle for a separate state two decades later. But women haven't done as well when it comes to holding elected offices. Only five women have been elected to the state assembly in the j...

Sixty five RTI applications and still going strong. NDTV meets an angry citizen from Mumbai who's activism has done his city a world of good.

Be it the campaign against liquor, the Chipko movement or the fight for a separate state -- Uttarakhand's women have always led for the front.