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• petersigrist - Oct 12 2007 | politics, activism, history, environment, sustainability, international, world

  Cool, I never knew about this movement. It's interesting, the relationship between economy and ecology.

  Quoted: The Chipko movement (literally "to hug" in Hindi) was a group of peasants in the Uttarakhand region of India who acted to prevent the felling of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department. The movement began in Chamoli district in 1973 and spread throughout the Uttarakhand Himalayas by the end of the decade.

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