1 abr 1973 ano - Chipko Movement 1973

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Originated in Chamoli District of Uttarakhand.
launched by Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Sunder Lal Bahuguna against large-scale cutting of trees by timber contractors in the Uttarakhand hills.
Local hill women from villages who were made aware of the ecological dangers, they embraced or hugged trees when the timber contractors reached and forced them to leave.

Vandana Shiva who has actively participated in chipko movement propagated the concept of ecofeminism in india in which women in nature are compared and an analogy is established in terms of operation and exploitation.
The term eco feminism was first coined by french writer Francoise d' Eaubonne in 1974

Appiko Movement:
Southern version of Chipko movement.
It was started in Uttara Kannada and Shimoga districts of Karnataka in the year 1983 by Pandurang Hegde.

Background:
The original ’Chipko movement’ was started around 260 years back in the early part of the 18th century in Rajasthan by the Bishnoi community.
It is said that members of the Bishnoi community of Rajasthan led by Amrita Devi laid down their lives in an effort to protect the Khejadi trees from being felled on the orders of the king of Jodhpur in 1730.
After this, the king of Jodhpur gave a strong royal decree preventing the cutting of trees in all Bishnoi villages.

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