Environmental Movements in India

1.Bishnoi Movement

  

• Year: 1700s
• Place: Rajasthan 
• Leaders: Amrita Devi along with Bishnoi villagers in Khejarli and surrounding villages.
• Aim: Save sacred trees from being cut down by the king’s soldiers for a new palace.

2.Chipko Movement

• Year: 1973
• Place: In Chamoli district and later at Tehri-Garhwal district of Uttarakhand.
• Leaders: Sundarlal Bahuguna.
• Aim: The main objective was to protect the trees on the Himalayan slopes from the axes of contractors of the forest.

3. Tehri Dam Conflict

• Year: 1990’s
• Place: Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand.
• Leaders: Sundarlal Bahuguna
• Aim: The protest was against the displacement of town inhabitants and environmental consequence of the weak ecosystem.

4.Save Silent Valley Movement

• Year: 1978
• Place: Silent Valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the Palakkad district of Kerala, India.
• Leaders: The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) an NGO, and the poet-activist Sughathakumari played an important role in the Silent Valley protests.
• Aim: In order to protect the Silent Valley, the moist evergreen forest from being destroyed by a hydroelectric project.

5. Jungle Bachao Andholan

• Year: 1982
• Place: Singhbhum district of Bihar
• Leaders: The tribals of Singhbhum.
• Aim: Against governments decision to replace the natural sal forest with Teak.

6. Appiko Movement

• Year: 1983
• Place: Uttara Kannada and Shimoga districts  of Karnataka State
• Leaders: Pandurang Hegde. 
• Aim: Against the felling and commercialization of natural forest and the ruin of ancient livelihood.

7. Narmada Bachao Andholan 

• Year: 1985
• Place: Narmada River, which flows through the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
• Leaders: Medha Patker, Baba Amte, 
• Aim: A social movement against a number of large dams being built across the Narmada River.
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• 8. Dasholi Gram Swarajya sangh 

• Year : 1964
• Place :Gopeswer, Uttrahand