In 1973, Gaura Devi led 27 women to hug trees in Reni village, Uttarakhand. The Chipko movement that followed produced the Forest Conservation Act of 1980, inspired Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement, and validated forest ecosystem economics that NITI Aayog would only articulate 50 years later. Here is the full accounting.
Category: Community Solutions
Grassroots innovations, successful NGO models, social enterprises, citizen initiatives
