CHIPKO

G.THEJOVATHI

GHS

SANTHIPURAM

HIMALAYAN VEGETATIONMountain ridge

Chipko means

Bahuguna with children of Jardhargaon

DEFORESTATION

• The forest officials began to teach the villagers how to grow trees.

• Bahuguna uses songs,discussions and mock activities .

Folk Song

Basis of Life.

• According to Bahuguna soil, water and pure air are the basis of life.

Primary school children

• The primary school children assembled under a mulbary tree to hear Bahuguna”s speech.

Request of a Tree

• The tree requests the people not to cut it because it also feel pain like humanbeings.

Aim of the Chipko Movement

• The main aim of the chipko movement is to stop the felling of trees.

Children as Mediators. `

• Children act as mediators for Chipko Movement to take the message home and spread to their parents.

Chipko movement teach us

• The chipko movement is teaching the people better land use ,nursery management and reforestation methods.

CHIPKO MEANS

-FOREST DEPARTMENT

• It has opened some nursery in villages and supplies free seedlings to the forest.

DESERT

• If the Himalayas are not saved all of India will be turned in to a desert.

GANDHIJI

• Bahuguna was influenced by Gandhiji.

• Bahuguna understood the need for protecting the environment by taking foot marches.

The contractors always over cut and took more than their share.

DHOOMSINGH NEGI

• He was the first person to hug a tree.

• He was a school teacher.

First step by women

• Women have led the first against deforestation, because they spend a large part of each day in the forest looking for fuel and fodder.

HUMAN CHAIN

• Women formed human chains across roads to prevent contractors from reaching the forest area.

Felling the trees.

• Women have fought against the deforestation. They have prevented the contractors from felling the trees.

REPLANTATION

• `1. Bahuguna suggested that the villagers must replant what they cut.

Seedlings

• The villagers should seek the help of forestry department to get seedlings.

• They should grow not only fuel and fodder bearing trees but also fruit and nut bearing trees also.

Soil Erosion

• If the trees are cut down, India will turn into a desert.

• Fodder will not be available.

• There will be Soil Erosion and land slides.

Change in the Food Habits

• 1. Bahuguna thinks that the change of the system of land ownership, change in the eating habits by replacing cooked food with soaked foods.

Ecological Movement.

• 1. As an ecological movement Chipko movement has now spread throughout India and much of the world.

Difficult words in this lesson

• Erosion• Mountain ridge• Seedlings• Atmosphere.• Resources• Marathon.• Deforestation.• Rural• Soil Erosion.• Replant.

RHYMING WORDS

Peasant - Pleasant

Finish - Perish

Fall - Tall

Ear - Hear

Tail - Nail

SYNONYMS

• Development - Upliftment.

• Attendance - Presence

• Disturbance - Turblance

• Advice - Suggestion

• Atmosphere - Enviornment

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