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In Serious Need Of Cleanup

This is not my province of expertise, but this article needs thorough, statement-specific citation and removal of POV statements, peacock and weasel words. This group obviously deserves a better article: the term "tree hugger" is now widespread, and hugging or sitting in trees as a protest of logging is iconic of the environmental movement. MiraFirefly 16:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

the redirect is fine but a cleanup is definetly needed, and a modern usage section written--69.110.129.127 02:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Chipko does not mean to embrace in Hindi. I can say that as a Hindi speaking person. The word chipko means to stick. They were not trying to embrace the trees but they were trying to stick to the trees. So that nobody pulls them off. That is why it was known as the chipko movement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.24.98 (talk) 15:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright Problem

I think an older revision of this article is from this webpage: http://www.american.edu/TED/chipko.htm It is a verbatim copy and I'm not sure if the site gives permission or not. Reverted anyway to a revision that is not controversial. --★Ukdragon37★talk 15:36, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Suggestion to merge

I have removed the direct copy from the "International Institute for Sustainable Development" and rewritten the page, originally at Chipko. As such, I suggest merging this page with the Chipko page. Obviously more can written here, but that can be developed at a later date. All the salient issues are noted in the new, original text. Ceti 23:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I second the motion to merge themStrumphs 13:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I agree. The pages are largely similar, and there doesn't appear to be any major advantage of keeping the two as separate pages. Insertclevernamehere 21:20, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I support merging them. There is really no discernable difference between the two.--DerRichter (talk) 21:33, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
I support merging them; at a quick skim, there's practically no difference between them. As though they were copied and pasted between each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by fuck fueero Kirashami (talk • contribs) 00:44, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

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Assessment comment

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I live in Louisville, Ky and have a neighbor who is insisting that I cut down a beautiful Ash tree in my backyard because he thinks it is going to die and fall on his property. The tree does have some storm damage, but looks great to me. I had an arborist look at it and he said it could last another 100 years. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Last edited at 12:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 11:32, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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Non-encyclopedic style and a factual error (?)

"the world immediately took notice of this non-violent movement"
The style is completely unencyclopedic.

"it created a precedent for non-violent protest started in India"
Weren't the Gandhi protests the first non-violent ones in India?--Adûnâi (talk) 10:41, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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Last retort

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Could an established user fix this phrase? It appears that during the recent edit wars, a piece of vandalism was inadvertantly left in the article. "Last retort" is not a phrase in use in Modern English. "As a Last resort" makes more sense, but even this clause could be omitted without losing any meaningful info. Majordouglas (talk) 14:08, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I've just gone ahead and removed it entirely. Primefac (talk) 14:16, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Appiko movement

I'm trying to find about the appiko movement inspired by the chipko movement but there's no mention of it here. It would be great if it is added so. 2409:4043:884:DA84:B03:C02:1812:DEBF (talk) 06:04, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Chipko movement

The Chipko movement (Hindi: chipko andolan, lit. '[tree] hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India.


A scene of Chipko Movement, one of the strongest movements to conserve forests in India. The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in India.[1] However, it was Sunderlal Bahuguna a Gandhian activist, who gave the movement a proper direction and its success meant that the world immediately took notice of this non-violent movement, which was to inspire in time many similar eco-groups by helping to slow down the rapid deforestation, expose vested interests, increase social awareness and the need to save trees, increase ecological awareness, and demonstrate the viability of people power. He used the slogan "Ecology is the permanent economy". Above all, it stirred up the existing civil society in India, which began to address the issues of tribal and marginalized people. And it's true that the support for the movement came mainly from the womenfolk. The Chipko Andolan or the Chipko movement is a movement that practiced methods of Satyagraha where both male and female activists from Uttarakhand played vital roles, including Gaura Devi, Suraksha Devi, Sudesha Devi, Bachni Devi and Chandi Bhatt, Virushka Devi and others.

Today, beyond the eco-socialism hue, it is seen increasingly as an ecofeminist movement. Although many of its leaders were men, women were not only its backbone, but also its mainstay, because they were the ones most affected by the rampant deforestation,[2] which led to a lack of firewood and fodder as well as water for drinking and irrigation. Over the years they also became primary stakeholders in a majority of the afforestation work that happened under the Chipko movement.[3][4][5] In 1987, the Chipko movement was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for its dedication to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources."[6]

The Chipko movement (Hindi: chipko andolan, lit. '[tree] hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India.


A scene of Chipko Movement, one of the strongest movements to conserve forests in India. The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in India.[1] However, it was Sunderlal Bahuguna a Gandhian activist, who gave the movement a proper direction and its success meant that the world immediately took notice of this non-violent movement, which was to inspire in time many similar eco-groups by helping to slow down the rapid deforestation, expose vested interests, increase social awareness and the need to save trees, increase ecological awareness, and demonstrate the viability of people power. He used the slogan "Ecology is the permanent economy". Above all, it stirred up the existing civil society in India, which began to address the issues of tribal and marginalized people. And it's true that the support for the movement came mainly from the womenfolk. The Chipko Andolan or the Chipko movement is a movement that practiced methods of Satyagraha where both male and female activists from Uttarakhand played vital roles, including Gaura Devi, Suraksha Devi, Sudesha Devi, Bachni Devi and Chandi Bhatt, Virushka Devi and others. 2405:205:B087:2433:1C5F:8636:51CA:EB2D (talk) 01:07, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

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