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Chipko movement  

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  • The Himalayan foothills of Uttar Pradesh produced the Chipko socioecological movement in the 1970s as a way to peacefully resist the destruction of lush forest areas like these in Gangotri, India. Photo credit: iStockphoto Chipko is a grassroots, socioecological movement that originated in the 1970s in the districts of Garwal and Kumaon—in the Himalayan foothills in the erstwhile state of Uttar Pradesh, now Uttarakhand, in India. [Source: Green Culture: An A-to-Z Guide; Chipko Movement]

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