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The Chipko movement is not a relic of the past; it is a source of inspiration for the challenges we face today. The climate crisis, deforestation, and resource scarcity threaten our planet’s future.

Chipko and its adherents won several accolades. Chandi Prasad Bhatt received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982, the Padma Shri in 1986, the Right Livelihood Award in 1987 (jointly with Sunderlal ...

Juthi Devi, daughter-in-law of one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, clasps the trunk of a tree in Raini village in October. Almost 50 years ago, women in Raini, Uttarakhand, used their ...

The Chipko was both an economic and ecological movement. It was never anti-development. It did however challenge big dams, unscientific road construction, monoculture in many aspects, and ...

Rudraprayag: Chipko was a movement to make locals self-reliant and give them rightful access to environmental resources, said Ramesh Pahari, one of the foremost leaders of the Chipko Movement.

The fiftieth anniversary of Chipko, a pioneering environmental protest movement, is of relevance even today as the spectre of ecological degradation and climate change looms before humankind.