Google Doodle Celebrates 45th Anniversary Of Chipko Movemement
On the 45th Anniversary of the Chipko Movement, here are 5 things which you would like to know about the man Sunderlal Bahuguna, who was born on January 9, 1927.
Chipko stands for "hugging trees" to prevent them from being cutting down. The 1973 movement was inspired by a similar movement in 1730 AD in Rajasthan, says Google's writeup about the significance of the event. "Take some time to hug your favorite tree-hugger in celebration of the Chipko movement!" Nearly right away it extended and spread to other Himalayan districts of the state. The Chipko Movement has been hailed as "Eco-Feminist" since most of the protestors consisted of women. In 1970, widespread floods inundated the area and was attributed to the mismanagement due to commercial logging.
The other reason that angered the villagers was the government's policy that did not allow local agriculturists and herders to cut the trees for fuel wood or for fodder and for certain other purposes. However, a sports manufacturing company was given the permission to fell trees and use them to make equipment, which proved to be the final provocation and a people's movement wasborn. For them, trees provided foliage, food and fuel and were to be used judiciously, and not be casually cut down or cut down in masses.
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The modern India Chipko Movement started in April 1973 in the village of Mandal, Uttar Pradesh.
Sundarlal Bahuguna, "Chipko" movement leader and environmentalist, on a foot march along with the "Save Forest" campaign volunteers in South Kanara in the southern Indian State of Karnataka in December 1984. Thus, sheer survival made women support the movement. In fact, the whole movement was taken forward by women participants, who became a driving force in educating people on the deleterious effects of deforestation.
Explaining its doodle, Google quotes a poem by Raturi about the Chipko movement of the 1970s that describes the method of embracing the trees to save them from felling. It adds, "The power of protest is an invaluable and powerful agent of social change".
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