Environmental Movements in India - Class VI

Uttar Pradesh . 

1973 . 

The Appiko movement was a forest-based environmental movement in Karnataka, modeled after the Chipko movement in the Himalayas.

D. None of the above. 

Sunderlal Bahuguna. 

Save Silent Valley is a social movement launched to protect an evergreen tropical forest in the Palaghat district of Kerala. It started in 1973 to save silent valley reserve forest and stop construction of Dam (Hydroelectric Project) in the Valley. There has been massive environmental debates to save the endangered wildlife having natural habitat in the valley. It was declared as Silent Valley National Park later in 1984.

Both the Chipko movement (Himalayas) and the Appiko movement (Karnataka) were grassroots environmental movements focused on preventing the commercial felling of trees.

Environment movements are the movements aimed toward the protection of environment, biological system . The environmental movement also including conservation and green politics, is a dissimilar scientific, social, and political movement to address environmental issues. Environmental movement is a type of "social movement that involves an array of persons, groups and coalitions that observe a common interest in environmental protection and act to bring about changes in environmental policies and practices".