2. 

3. SOME OF THE MOVEMENTS WHICH WAS
ORGANIZED TO SAVE OUR NATURAL
RESOURCES
Chipko Andolan in Garhwal.
 Sal Forest restoration in West Bengal.
 Protection of khejri trees in Rajasthan
by the Bishnois.

4.  The act of hugging the trees to protect them from
being felled through a non-violent movement:
Chipko movement.

5.  In 1972, the West Bengal government
recognized its failure in reviving the
degraded sal forest.
 A.K Banerjee a forest officer along with the local
villagers was involved in saving over 120 acres of
badly degraded sal forest.

6. Bishnoi Communities in Rajasthan
 Bishnoi communities are the communities for whom
conservation of forest and wildlife has been a religious belief.
Amrita Devi Bishnoi
 Amrita Devi sacrificed her life along with 363 others for the
protection of ‘khejri’ trees in Khejrali village near Jodhpur in
Rajasthan.
 The government of India has even instituted an ‘Amrita Devi
Bishnoi National Cenotaph Award of for bishnoi Wildlife martyrs Conservation’ at
in the
Khejarli, who laid down their lives
memory of Amrita in 1730 Devi CE by Bishnoi.
protecting trees.