Chipko Movement
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Environmental Value System
What is it?
Background
An organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them.
- Ecocentric
- Made people more conscious
- Inspired more movements
- People learned about importance of trees in society
- "tree hugger"
- Organizations
Members
- Founder: Chandi Prasad Bhatt
- Stop mass distruction
- Movement: Gaura Devi
- Moved village women
- Village of Mandal in the upper Alakananda valley
- Non violence movement
- Group of girls that were called ecofeminism
- Orders of deforestation by government to support companies
- Indian Forest Act 1927 (banned communities from forest)
“The forest nurtures us like a mother; you will only be able to use your axes on it but you have to use them first on us.”
History
- Amrita Devi
- Bishnoi community
- Maharaja (King) of Jodhpur order to cut down trees
- 18th century
- Risked thir lives by laying down
- Group of girls
MLA
- Shepard, Mark. "“Hug the Trees!”." N.p., 1998. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <http:www.markshep.com/peace/GT_Chipko.html>.
- "The Chipko Movement India’s Call to Save Their Forests." TODAY'S HEROES. N.p., 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/contemporary-04.html>.
- "The Chipko Movement (1987, India)." Right Livelihood Award. N.p., 2009. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <http://www.rightlivelihood.org/chipko.html>.
- Jain, Shobita. "Standing up for Trees: Women's Role in the Chipko Movement." FAO. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2015. <http://www.fao.org/docrep/r0465e/r0465e03.htm>.