books.google.ca - The Chipko movement emerged in the early 1970s in the Garhwal region of the Indian Himalayas. In attempting to draw attention to the difficulty of sustaining their livelihoods in the region, local communities engaged in protest by hugging trees that were marked for felling in state-owned commercial forests....http://books.google.ca/books/about/Of_myths_and_movements.html?id=ie9v_49FOi0C&q=Garhwal+Himalaya&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOf myths and movements
