Chipko Movement Was Started In India By. The movement started in 1972 to stop the indiscriminate and illegal harvesting of forests. As the name suggests, `chipko` means ‘embrace’ or to ‘stick’.
The chipko movement was started at a place called gopeshwar in chamoli district of the uttrakhand state. It was started in 1973 in chamoli district of uttrakhand and later tehri garhwal. “chipko” in hindi means to cling, reflecting the protesters main technique of throwing their arms around the tree trunks designated to be cut, and refusing to move.
This prevented the contractors from felling them.
The chipko movement started in april 1973 in a village in uttarakhand (then a part of uttar pradesh) in the upper alakananda valley. Against these harmful deforestation policies a movement called chipko was born. The name of the movement comes from the word 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them. The villagers, especially women of that region hugged the trees.