In the Chipko movement, which began in the Himalayan region of present-day Uttarakhand in 1973, villagers protected trees by

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Chipko means 'to cling'. Villagers, many of them women, put their arms around trees to stop commercial felling.
The movement is linked with Sunderlal Bahuguna, Chandi Prasad Bhatt and Gaura Devi.

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The Appiko movement in Karnataka, in 1983, used the same method.

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