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Pradeep Kumar

22/05/21 12:20 PM IST

A green warrior to the core .

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Well-known environmentalist and Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna is no more.

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  • Mr. Bahuguna, 94, died of COVID-related complications at AIIMS, Rishikesh.
  • He was one of the founders of the Chipko, or hug the tree movement, in the 1970s to save Himalayan forests.
  • Mr. Bahuguna also led the charge against the construction of big dams in the Himalayas in the 1980s.
  • He was fervently opposed to the construction of the Tehri dam and sat on two long hunger strikes against the dam, which proved to be of no avail.
Chipko movement
  • The Chipko movement came to a halt during the Emergency, but when it resurfaced in 1977, Bahuguna emerged as one of its tallest leaders.
  • The Chipko movement was a string of peasant movements centred around livelihood, which was intimately dependent on forests.
  • The movement originated in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (later Uttarakhand) in 1973 and quickly spread throughout the Indian Himalayas.
  • The Hindi word chipko means “to hug” or “to cling to” and reflects the demonstrators’ primary tactic of embracing the trees to impede the loggers.
Source: The Hindu

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