Chipko Movement Leader Sunderlal Bahuguna Passes Away of COVID-19 at 94
- Noted environmentalist and Gandhian activist, Sunderlal Bahuguna, who was the leader of the Chipko Movement, has passed away due to COVID-19 complications. He was 94.
- The idea of Chipko movement was given by his wife and the action was taken by him. The movement began in 1973 in Uttarakhand, (then a part of Uttar Pradesh), at the foothills of Himalayas.
- Chipko movement was one of the strongest movements to conserve forests and trees in India from cutting by forest contractors.
- “Chipko” means “hug” and people started hugging and holding onto trees when they were being cut.