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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Chipko movement''' was a [[social movement|group action]] in [[India]] with the goal of saving [[trees]]. This is mainly done through the act of [[hugging]] [[trees]] to protect them from being cut.<ref>{{cite news |title=What is the Chipko movement? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/what-is/what-is-the-chipko-movement-google-doodle-5111644/ |accessdate=13 December 2019 |work=The Indian Express |date=26 March 2018}}</ref> It was also known as '''Chipko Andolan'''. Those who were part of it used [[Nonviolence|nonviolent protests]]. The Chipko movement began in the early 1970s in [[Uttarakhand]]. It then spread to [[Uttar Pradesh]]. By the 1980s it had spread across most of India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unasylva - No. 146 - Women in forestry - Standing up for trees: Women's role in the Chipko Movement |url=http://www.fao.org/3/r0465e/r0465e03.htm |website=www.fao.org |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |accessdate=13 December 2019}}</ref><br />
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The Chipko movement lead to a change in [[wikt:policy|policies]] to stop the [[clear cutting]] of trees in some regions.<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=GPaA4Nb0w0YC&pg=PA67&dq=Chipko+movement#PPA67,M1 The women of Chipko] Staying alive: women, ecology, and development'', by [[Vandana Shiva]], Published by Zed Books, 1988. ISBN 0-86232-823-3. ''Page 67''.</ref> (Clear cutting is a type of [[logging]] where all trees in an area are cut down).<br />
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Chipko movement was started by Sunderlal Bahuguna.<br />
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