I want to know about appiko movement of Karnataka?

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I want to know as i cannot find good results .

Answer 1

The Appiko movement was a revolutionary movement based on environmental conservation in India. The "Chipko Andolan" (Hug the Trees Movement) in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas inspired the villagers of the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka Province in southern India to launch a similar movement to save their forests. In September 1983, men, women and children of Salkani "hugged the trees" in Kalase forest. (The local term for "hugging" in Kannada is appiko.) Appiko Andolan gave birth to a new awareness all over southern India.

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Answer 2

The people starting Appiko, meaning in local Kanada 'hug the tree', obtained their inspiration from the women led Chipko movement in North India's Himalayan foothills. Appiko emerged during the late 1970s as a vigilant mass movement, supported by thousands of villagers living along the Western Ghats, notably in the state of Karnataka, but also in Kerela. But also merchants, accountants and other city based people started to sympathize with the message and mission of Appiko and started to provide tangible assistance in the form of free office space, food provisions to sustain people during marches etc. Appiko was able to persuade the government, supported by media accounts, eminent scientists and so forth, to introduce a ban of the felling of green trees in Western Ghats in Karnataka. Furthermore, Appiko challenged large dams, mining, river polluting paper factories and other destructive 'development' projects. Changing socio-economic and cultural circumstances challenge Appiko to adapt its strategies.

In 2005, 25 years later, Appiko is still active and its message even more valuable than ever. It offers villagers, NGOs and policy makers a vision, an alternative avenue of sustainable development, based on long term prudent exploitation of forest resources, with an emphasis on extraction of non-timber forest products, organic agriculture, renewable energy etc. My advise: order this film, watch it and share it widely. You do yourself and others a service