Give the importance of Chipko Andolan.

•Chipko Andolan (Hug the trees movement) is a movement to save trees.

•The Andolan was originated in the remote village called 'Reni' in Garhwal in 1970s.

• There was dispute between local village and a logging contractor who had been allowed to fell trees in a forest near the village.

•The women from the village reached the forest and clasped the trunk of trees preventing the workers from felling the trees. In this way the trees were saved.