What is Chipko movement?
The '''Chipko movement''' was a [[social movement|group action]] in [[India]] with the goal of saving [[trees]]. This is mainly done through the act of [[hugging]] [[trees]] to protect them from being cut.<ref>{{cite news |title=What is the Chipko movement? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/what-is/what-is-the-chipko-movement-google-doodle-5111644/ |access-date=13 December 2019 |work=The Indian Express |date=26 March 2018}}</ref> It was also known as '''Chipko Andolan'''. Those who were part of it used [[Nonviolence|nonviolent protests]]. The Chipko movement began in the early 1970s in [[Uttarakhand]]. It then spread to [[Uttar Pradesh]]. By the 1980s it had spread across most of India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Unasylva - No. 146 - Women in forestry - Standing up for trees: Women's role in the Chipko Movement |url=http://www.fao.org/3/r0465e/r0465e03.htm |website=www.fao.org |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> /The Chipko leads to a change in [[wikt:policy|policies]] to stop the [[clear cutting]] of trees in some regions.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=GPaA4Nb0w0YC&dq=Chipko+movement&pg=PA67 The women of Chipko] Staying alive: women, ecology, and development'', by [[Vandana Shiva]], Published by Zed Books, 1988. ISBN 0-86232-823-3. ''Page 67''.</ref> (Clear cutting is a type of [[logging]] where all trees in an area are cut down). Chipko movement was started by Sunderlal Bahuguna. The name of the Chipko moment originated from the word 'embrace' as the villagers used to hug the trees/ and protect them from wood cutters from cutting them. In 1731, the king of Jodhpur in Rajasthan asked one of his ministers to arrange wood for constructing a new palace. The minister and workers went to a forest near a village, inhabited by Bishnois, to cut down trees. A Bishnoi woman Amrita Devi showed exemplary courage by hugging a tree and daring king’s men to cut her first before cutting the tree. The tree mattered much more to her than her own li