Revisiting Chipko movement in Uttarakhand

Bahar Dutt, CNN-IBN | Apr 27, 2012 at 07:27am


Shivpuri: The Chipko movement, 40 years ago, was India's first green movement and one of our first green heroes is Chandi Prasad Bhatt. In the 1970s across Uttaranchal, rural women gave a cry to 'hug the trees' in protest against a government plan to chop the ancient trees.

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