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Write a short note on Chipko Movement. Chipko Movement:

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The tribal women of Himalayas protested against the exploitation of forests in 1972. Later on it transformed into Chipko Movement by Sundarlal Bahuguna in Mandal village of Chamoli district in 1974. People protested by hugging trees together which were felled by a sports goods company. Main features of Chipko movement were,

1. This movement remained non political 

2. It was a voluntary movement based on Gandhian thought. 

3. It was concerned with the ecological balance of nature 

4. Main aim of Chipko movement was to give a slogan of five Fs – Food, Fodder, Fuel, Fibre and Fertilizer, to make the communities self sufficient in all their basic needs.

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