What Was the Chipko Movement?
Written by Uthara Menon, a grade 4 student.
The Chipko movement or Chipko Andolan was a forest conservation movement in India to stop the large-scale felling of trees in the Himalayas. It first started in 1973 in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh (now Uttrakhand). The movement was special for two reasons- it was nonviolent, and women played an important role in it…