Beginning of Chipko Movement

Date: March 26, 1974 • Location: Pipalkoti, India

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1974–1980.

A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.

Chamoli district is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India. It is bounded by Tibet to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, Rudraprayag to the west, and Uttarkashi to the northwest. The administrative headquarters of Chamoli district is in Gopeshwar.