The Chipko Movement was triggered by a government decision to allot forest land to a sports goods company. The tipping point came when government on January 1974, announced the auction of 2,500 trees, overlooking the Alaknanda river.

What was the main objective of Chipko Movement?

In India in the 1970s, the Chipko movement was a nonviolent social and ecological movement led by rural people, primarily women, with the goal of conserving trees and forests threatened by government-backed logging.

Who first started Chipko Movement?

"NO WOMAN ever had to hug a tree to protect it," says Chandi Prasad Bhatt, the founder of Chipko.