Thirty years ago, many women of the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan (India), led by Amrita Devi, sacrificed their lives to save their khejri, sacred trees, by putting their arms around them. The Chipko story begins with this event. In the middle of the Himalayas, in the 1970s, Chipko women created the Hug The Tree Movement.…
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