Discuss the role of women and communities inprotection and conservation of forests.

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Women and communities have played a major role inenvironmental conservation movements.
(i) Case study of the bishnoi community:TheBishnoi community in Rajasthan strictly believes in theconcept of living peacefully with nature. In 1731, the king ofJodhpur ordered his ministers to arrange wood for the construction ofhis new palace. For this purpose, the minister and the workers wentto bishnoi village. There, a Bishnoi woman called Amrita Devi alongwith her daughter and hundreds of other Bishnois showed the courageto step forward and stop them from cutting trees. They embraced thetrees and lost their lives at the hands of soldiers of the king. Thisresistance by the people of the village forced the king to give upthe idea of cutting trees.
(ii) Chipko movement: The Chipko movement wasstarted in 1974 in the Garhwal region of the Himalayas. In thismovement, the women from the village stopped the contractors fromcutting forest trees by embracing them.

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